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[MarkDavis]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Glastonbury-Festival...=item335ddfdfba

[jameshunt]

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Glastonbury-Festival...=item335ddfdfba

She's only gone and posted her photo on that auction!  An email to the Glastonbury office would have her ticket cancelled straight away!  A report on eBay would get her auction cancelled...

[puppetmode]

you haven't titled this thread correctly. it should be 'SCUM OF THE EARTH 2' or 'return of the scum'

HANGINGS TO GOOD FOR THEM, GIVE ME A GUN, WHERE'S THE HORSES? and other such over the top remarks.

Next time write to the Daily Mail. they love headlines like this

[Detective McNulty]

why are people so ridiculously OTT about things like this? it's not like the girl has bought 100,000 tickets rendering it impossible for anyone to get one via the proper means and she can therefore hold the world to ransom?

She can't go, she's put it on ebay and the market has dictated that people are willing to pay a high price for a ticket to a brilliant weekend.

'Scum', grip shop is that way Mark Davo. Two for one offer, get in there quick.

[sizzlefee]

I really don't see what the problem is.. she might not be able to go now due to un-forseen circumstances and someone who looks remotely like her may be begging for a ticket..

Why report her? Is it really going to ruin everyone else festival..

If i hadnt got a ticket id bloody well be trying to find one somehow!

[sizzlefee]

why are people so ridiculously OTT about things like this? it's not like the girl has bought 100,000 tickets rendering it impossible for anyone to get one via the proper means and she can therefore hold the world to ransom?

She can't go, she's put it on ebay and the market has dictated that people are willing to pay a high price for a ticket to a brilliant weekend.

'Scum', grip shop is that way Mark Davo. Two for one offer, get in there quick.

Glad someone feels the same way as I do!

[Atrocity Exhibition]

If she just wanted her money because she can't get a refund then she should have set a buy it now price to cover the original ticket cost. She knew it was going to make a decent profit which is why she could be called scum. She has no history of selling tickets so could be worse.

[jameshunt]

I really don't see what the problem is.. she might not be able to go now due to un-forseen circumstances and someone who looks remotely like her may be begging for a ticket..

Why report her? Is it really going to ruin everyone else festival..

If i hadnt got a ticket id bloody well be trying to find one somehow!

If she was selling it as a buy-it-now at face value you may have had a valid point.

She took a ticket that could have been sold to someone who actually wanted to go, even though U2 pulled out.

She's selling it to the highest bidder.  It's touting, whether on a small scale or not it is against the ethos of the festival.  If she gets away with it and makes a huge profit what would stop her doing the same next year, and her hundred friends and their thousands of friends?

If some of you don't get that that's fine.  I don't expect everyone to think the same.

[sizzlefee]

Unfortunately thats not how things really work is it..

Why set a price when people may actually bid higher.. because you're a good person? If I could make a profit after feeling gutted about not going I would do. Oh well maybe i'm scum..

[jameshunt]

Yep - she'll do it again next year.  Currently at £455 with a day still to run.  So she's making getting on for £300 already.

[jameshunt]

Unfortunately thats not how things really work is it..

Why set a price when people may actually bid higher.. because you're a good person? If I could make a profit after feeling gutted about not going I would do. Oh well maybe i'm scum..

Maybe you are.  

[niceandfriendly]

So she's making getting on for £300 already.

people make profit every minute, of every day in every walk of life. one person making profit on one ticket to a festival which she can no longer attend is not the act of the devil.

go and have a sit down guys and breathe.

[Langdale Wolf]

jameshunt is talking perfect sense here and he's to be commended for doing so.

She's touting.  One of the very things the festival has worked hard to eradicate.  The festival has said many times that tickets should not be put on ebay - if she WASN'T touting, she would have put it as a 'buy-it-now' at face value.  But even then she'd have been in the wrong for putting it up in the first place.

The ticketing R&Rs might be a bit 'incovenient' but they're there for OUR safety and comfort.  Remember that next time some low-life gets through the gates via a touted ticket and decides to cause trouble/rob from tents etc etc.

[jameshunt]

It gets worse and worse.  She's lying, or at best is badly mistaken, and of course won't refund the buyer.

"As you can see. the picture on the ticket is of a white, blond female - the picture is very small and not too clear and the stewards don't really look anyway, but if you don't look the same, a hat and a pair of sunglasses should help.

I can't offer a refund for any refused entry"

[Porcelina]

I don't agree with mass touting, but like others have said it's not like she is doing it for any reason other than because she can't go. Sure she could sell it at face value, but there has been ample opportunity to get a ticket over the past 8 months and it's the price you pay for not planning ahead. Basic microeconomic principles.

It's better somebody else has an incredible weekend for an (inflated) price than someone not have it at all. The people paying £400 for it can probably easily afford to.

[jameshunt]

I don't agree with mass touting, but like others have said it's not like she is doing it for any reason other than because she can't go. Sure she could sell it at face value, but there has been ample opportunity to get a ticket over the past 8 months and it's the price you pay for not planning ahead. Basic microeconomic principles.

It's better somebody else has an incredible weekend for an (inflated) price than someone not have it at all. The people paying £400 for it can probably easily afford to.

How do you know she can't go?  Because she said so?  She also said that stewards won't check the photo and suggested the buyer wears a hat and sunglasses.  

She also said that she won't offer a refund - I believe that bit.

She also knows the anti-touting measures Glastonbury put in place and if she had any conscience and truly couldn't go then she'd be offering the ticket at face value.

Oh and there's been ample opportunity to buy a ticket over the past 8 months?  Please tell that to the 10s of thousands who tried to buy tickets and have unfortunately missed out.

[ukslim]

Scum. Sub-human scum.

[smog]

brb off to buy a blonde wig....

[lord stradmor]

Bit of a minger, mind.

[jameshunt]

Bit of a minger, mind.

I thought the same thing when I saw the auction photo.  Most people would need to get serious rhinoplasty to match that nose.