i don't see what people are doing wrong abd no i have never actually sold any in my life. if i wanted to hang on a phone line and buy tickets with my debit card and then sell them on for more money i dont see why people have a problem with that.after all i would not be conning anybody as i would be declaring how much i wanted for the tickets up front.if someone wants to pay that price so what.
2007-03-23 22:20:01 · 11 answers · asked by johnboy 4 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
I was discussing this with my sister a few days ago.
the thing is, concert tickets are meant for people who actually want to see the band/artist.
with people purely buying them to sell them on quickly at a higher price, it often stops true fans seeing the band that they really want to see (because they simply cannot afford the extra money).
Therefore, although there seems nothing wrong with selling on tickets for a higher price, if you look at it from the point of view of the fans, its not so great.
I hope this makes sense
2007-03-23 22:33:19 · answer #1 · answered by FreakGirl 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are two very strong arguments to this story.
Firsly tickets are not exactly cheap to start off with so the ideal situation would be for the true fans who really want to go to a gig / sporting event to have the opportunity to buy the tickets at face value which is not possible if they are snapped up by professional touts who have the structures in place to get the tickets before anyone else does.
Secondly there have been many occasions where ive wanted to go to an event and only heard about it after the public sale of tickets became available. In these cases if the event was something i was really dying to see i would be happy to know i could go and find the tickets from an alternative source and i would then pay the extra dosh.
In a lot of occasion there will be people who genuinely cant go to the shows they book and sell the tickets on at face value which would be the best case scenario to get tickets which are sold out. I suppose you could always argue too that if the touts werent buying them in the public sale then they would still be there available at face value for fans.
End of the day the solution might be to put measures in place to ensure that on sale of tickets after public sales may not exceed a certain value. In this way people can still get tickets late on and they wont be cheated out of seeing a performance they really should not have paid an arm and a leg for.
Its a tricky issue.
2007-03-24 08:14:38 · answer #2 · answered by Lukas D 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I really don't see what's wrong in this: it is just a market economy. However why have tickets at all? Admission could be sold in the same way as budget airline seats, so that ID would have to be confirmed on admission. This wouldn't take much longer as it could be part of a security check. Initially, admission could be sold more cheaply to genuine fans but they would only be able to buy the number of tickets they actually needed. The promoters could accept returns, with possibly a handling or cancellation fee, and then resell them for a much higher price closer to the date.
What we don't want is more legislation.
2007-03-24 05:39:07 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't think people should be able to sell tickets on unless it's for the same price as they got them. imagine if you really wanted to go to a gig (take this years reading, for example) but it sold out in seconds, and you were unable to get tickets. you'd be gutted. then you check ebay in a few hours, and there are hundreds of tickets for 3 times the cost.
i just think it's really unfair on the real music fans, just so someone can make some money.
it makes no difference if you 'declare how much you want for them'. you're still taking those tickets off some real fan who might have saved up for ages to afford that ticket at the proper, fair price. gig tickets are overpriced enough as it is without people like you.
2007-03-24 06:48:11 · answer #4 · answered by badger_badger 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the fuss is all about people ripping others off by buying up as many tickets as they can, and then conning people into buying them at way over the top prices, they should be limited to you only being allowed to buy two each person giving other people a chance to get them
2007-03-27 08:26:00 · answer #5 · answered by Sunny 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't see any problem with it, and especially now with sites like Seatwave.com, you dont have to worry about being beaten up by some big guy in a carpark seeling fake tickets. You can buy tickets online safely and securely at Seatwave.
2007-03-26 12:02:26 · answer #6 · answered by eeyore_7250 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because there are fans out there that want to buy tickets at face value and cant do that because of all the scalpers out there that buy them up and sell them off at 20x face value.
2007-03-24 06:14:16 · answer #7 · answered by Jovi Freak 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well, whoever the tickets are sold on to could have bought them cheaper, from source, in the first place.
2007-03-24 05:29:08 · answer #8 · answered by tattyhead65 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Your local Government cant have that go on as they are not getting their share of the profit so they put laws against it in place and police them .
2007-03-24 05:29:53 · answer #9 · answered by burning brightly 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well as long as people are prepared to pay high prices for them, they will keep doing it.
2007-03-24 05:30:17 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋