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[Mackem]

Given the success that the festival has had in curtailing touting, I find it surprising that they are now allowing people to openly flout the registration process.

There are quite a few tickets up on eBay at the moment. All have descriptions of the ticket holder - some even show the picture itself - and it's clear there's no will to have them removed. Compared to Reading, V etc the number is tiny - and they do seem to be genuine people who just missed the deadline (although almost evey one of them is looking to make a profit). But it sends out a clear signal that will not have been lost on the touts: the Festival organisers aren't going to come after you any more.

Expect the touts to start buying up armfuls of tickets again next year and the purchase process to be a lot more stressful for the rest of us as a result.

[al_coholic]

Expect the touts to start buying up armfuls of tickets again next year and the purchase process to be a lot more stressful for the rest of us as a result.

Dont see how this will happen, based on the other restrictions in place, such as tickets limited to 6 per order, only paying by debit card and pre-registration with photos. It makes it a lot of hassle for the proper ebay touts, especially when its so much easier to concentrate on T & V.

However, ebay are pathetic with this issue. They are openly allowing people to abuse the system and it should be stopped. Even if it is just a couple of hundred tickets

[LittlemissC]

I just checked and a girl is selling for £300 with 4 bids! She states its foe a brunette but if you wear sunglasses and a hat you'll be fine!

And people are selling car park passes for £25+ - you can still buy them from SEE!

Unbelievable...

[toffeemax]

I just checked and a girl is selling for £300 with 4 bids! She states its foe a brunette but if you wear sunglasses and a hat you'll be fine!

And people are selling car park passes for £25+ - you can still buy them from SEE!

Unbelievable...

f**king bitch.

regarding car parking tickets, if people are so f**king stupid to buy em off ebay they should pay 100 quid for them for f**k sake.

[T.Funster]

The main thing that annoys me about all these peole with tickets for sale is that they've got their tickets & I'm still waiting for mine!

[Spindles]

I'm bidding on one of these tickets.  My mate missed out on the resale and I figured, what the hell.

I am a massive supporter of the anti-touting measures.  I have always lived on an income of less than 10k and as a result have never had much money to spare.  Touting kept me out of glastonbury for many of the years and the current system really works.

Last year I saw obvious cases of people with someone else's picture at the gates, I saw stewards who were tipping a wink on these occasions.

There is a big difference between touting and selling on a single or couple of now unusable tickets.  At least in my eyes.

[Twinkle_14]

The main thing that annoys me about all these peole with tickets for sale is that they've got their tickets & I'm still waiting for mine!

Me to!! x

[Mackem]

Dont see how this will happen, based on the other restrictions in place, such as tickets limited to 6 per order, only paying by debit card and pre-registration with photos. It makes it a lot of hassle for the proper ebay touts, especially when its so much easier to concentrate on T & V.

Yes but they can do T, V, Reading *and* Glastonbury. It's just extra bunce for them. In fact it could be more profitable - and hence more worthwhile than the others. If they can snap them up, taking signiicant numbers of tickets out of circulation and making it difficult for the likes of us to get them in the first place, then it will drive up the price of Glasto over the 300-400 they seem to be going for at the moment.

6 per order is generous compared to most sales of sought after tickets - it doesn't slow the touts down.  I assume they have teams of people or some other means of getting handfuls of them. Can't see what difference debit card over credit card makes to touting - I'm sure their bank accounts are bulging. And pre-registration with photo makes no difference either - just register loads of people at your address using any old bland poor quality photo meaning anyone can get in on it.

It's all solvable if there's enough money in it for them. What's stopped them up to now was the lack of a market place - and a market - for them. But if eBay are happy to sell them now, buyers can buy safe in the knowledge that they'll get in and the festival doesn't seem interested in intervening, they'll be back out from under their stones.

[Mackem]

I'm bidding on one of these tickets.  My mate missed out on the resale and I figured, what the hell.

I am a massive supporter of the anti-touting measures.  I have always lived on an income of less than 10k and as a result have never had much money to spare.  Touting kept me out of glastonbury for many of the years and the current system really works.

Last year I saw obvious cases of people with someone else's picture at the gates, I saw stewards who were tipping a wink on these occasions.

There is a big difference between touting and selling on a single or couple of now unusable tickets.  At least in my eyes.

I agree there's a big difference, and I don't blame you at all. But you're only able to do that because you now know he's pretty well certain to get in. And once that knowledge reaches a certain threshold (which I'd argue it has already) the measures will become redundant and you yourself might have to resort to buying through touts next year, because they'll put pressure on the initial sale.

Edited by Mackem, 08 June 2010 - 02:11 PM.

[farewellandgoodnight]

I'm bidding on one of these tickets.  My mate missed out on the resale and I figured, what the hell.

I am a massive supporter of the anti-touting measures.  I have always lived on an income of less than 10k and as a result have never had much money to spare.  Touting kept me out of glastonbury for many of the years and the current system really works.

Last year I saw obvious cases of people with someone else's picture at the gates, I saw stewards who were tipping a wink on these occasions.

There is a big difference between touting and selling on a single or couple of now unusable tickets.  At least in my eyes.

Best post of the thread so far!