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Post by BurlyBeaR on Aug 13, 2018 7:38:35 GMT
Seatwave and Get Me In are being ditched, not before time in my opinion. They’re introducing an exchange scheme where you can put purchased tickets back onto the market at face value only. Perhaps they could look at the ethics of charging people to print their own tickets at home next? www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45133094 |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2018 7:50:59 GMT
Just saw this - agree this is an excellent move. My reading is that on the exchange scheme it will add a bit to cover the original buyer's booking fees. So still lets genuine fans return tickets but stops the bots (or at least, stops one outlet for them)
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Post by ellie1981 on Aug 13, 2018 14:30:56 GMT
I’ll be interested to see the percentage of resold tickets available for certain events. TM have said they’ll be colour coded on seating plans, so if they turned up in huge blocks very early on, I’d suspect TM are just lying and charging a 15% uplift under the guise of booking fees for the exchange - in the same way they claim events are sold out when they have just held back a bigger chunk of VIP pacakages until they can’t sell any more.
Couldn’t they scrap the 15% surcharge and make the exchanger forfeit their booking fee? A bit like the £3 fee to return a Hamilton ticket?
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Post by Phantom of London on Aug 13, 2018 17:14:34 GMT
Are these sites really professional scalpers?
Seemingly worse in America, when you see popular shows and their grosses, then read the average ticket price and wonder why you can’t get these tickets at anywhere near those prices? Because they’re bought on-mass by bots, then put on reselling sites for exuberant prices.
Good these are taken down and laws should be passed to outlaw these sites.
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