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[drumski]

If you look like a dead person buy this ticket:

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/GLASTONBURY-2010-OFF...=item3f0073f14c

Waits for somebody to have a bitch-fit and email ebay...

[Insomaniac]

Whoever reported her should be ashamed of themselves.

Stop being hardnosed little bastards and give somebody the chance of going to a festival ( you've probably already got your tickets sorted hence the ridiculous attitude)

As previously mentioned, the girl may have had to pull out for numerous reasons, she's starting the bidding at face value allowing people to decide how much they want to pay for the ticket, if someone wanted to pay £2000 pound for it then fair enough, its got nothing to do with you...

Theres a huge huge difference between a girl selling her ticket at face value and a tout who buys 20 and sells them for £400 each,  it seems as though a small minority of people on this forum need to give their heads a wobble and try and think in someone elses shoes for a change.

So by your logic you don't mind if I buy an extra ticket next year and tout it on Ebay? Will get all my mates to do the same as well. Should be able to make some nice spending money.

[Langdale Wolf]

i don't care if someone is selling 1 ticket or 100, if they want more than face-value plus booking fees they're touting.

This.

I don't think there's any valid argument against this.  If you genuinely can't make it, there should be a buy-it-now price of the face value of the ticket.  Otherwise, you're a tout.  And therefore scum.  Sub human scum.

Edited by Langdale Wolf, 09 June 2010 - 01:13 PM.

[DougalMcGuire]

Aside all the completely valid points about this auction in particular being plain wrong, it still amazes me how people on this forum that I'd expect to be folks with a love of music in general come on and defend the indefensible, with the utterly ridiculous arguments of supply and demand, what people are willing to pay, microeconomics, honest opportunities, and all the other BULL that gets spouted. These economic principles simply do not apply in this arena (pun intended)

What touting does plain and simple is deny fans the chance to see the performers they enjoy, whether it stops one fan, or 20,000, it still prevents someone somewhere from buying a ticket from the official outlet at face value.

The girl in this case may well have been telling the truth about being unable to go, I somehow doubt it and it's completely indistinguishable from someone buying a ticket with the express intention on ripping a genuine fan off for hundreds of pounds later as the excitement grows, and the bit she put about going dressed as the Fonejacker and you'll be fine makes me think it more likely the latter.....

[Insomaniac]

Waits for somebody to have a bitch-fit and email ebay...

Waits for you to realise that encouraging touts is against your own interests.

[jameshunt]

1) So because she didn't purchase the £10 ticket insurance she deserves to lose her £200?

2) Wasn't the refund deadline a fortnight ago?

Because she wanted to make a fat profit she deserves to lose her £185 + £4.95 p&p.  I dislike touts.

What is it about a face value buy-it-now auction that some people on this board find so difficult to comprehend?

[russycarps]

Sadly it doesn't suprise me in the least to see a load of cretins on here defending touting.

It just reflects the generally selfish attitude people seem to have these days.

I bet you most of the people saying they would so the same are 21 or younger.

[Tugger2k]

Because she wanted to make a fat profit she deserves to lose her £185 + £4.95 p&p.  I dislike touts.

What is it about a face value buy-it-now auction that some people on this board find so difficult to comprehend?

this

if it had been at face value it would have been on there for 5 minutes, she'd have made her money back and the buyer would have been happy!

its not rocket science is it

[Insomaniac]

Because she wanted to make a fat profit she deserves to lose her £185 + £4.95 p&p.  I dislike touts.

What is it about a face value buy-it-now auction that some people on this board find so difficult to comprehend?

Strangely enough there are still a large amount of people who think that touts are providing a valuable service. I also suspect there are a few ticket touts commenting in this thread who don't like their trade being criticised.

[ukslim]

It all makes me pine for the days when you wandered into the Odeon box office and bought your Glastonbury ticket over the counter.

Of course, in those days, if it sold out (which it didn't) there was always fence-jumping to fall back on.

[Gutterflower]

So we're now just sniping at each other now are we? brilliant.

[Insomaniac]

So we're now just sniping at each other now are we? brilliant.

Nope not at all. It's simply a debate between those who think touting should be encouraged and those who are against touting.

[DougalMcGuire]

So we're now just sniping at each other now are we? brilliant.

Now that's a solution to touting I can thoroughly support!  

[OneLittleFish]

Sadly it doesn't suprise me in the least to see a load of cretins on here defending touting.

It just reflects the generally selfish attitude people seem to have these days.

I bet you most of the people saying they would so the same are 21 or younger.

This.

Touts are scum and by selling tickets that can be bought by anyone and therefore unable to be checked by the festival for past bans etc. they're potentially endangering others safety at the festival.

Touts are scum. No exceptions.

[Spliffman]

you dont have to bid higher than your prepared to pay.

f**k it your all gona get on your high horses and be like 'blah blah its not in the spirit of the festival' well if your not going you dont have to be in the spirit of the festival and i dont blame the girl for making a bit of money from it if people want to pay that amount, why stop them

  So you would still go to Glastonbury if ME wanted to make a bit of a proffit and charged £500 per ticket?

  Because you know that some people would pay that amount, so why not?

[Langdale Wolf]

Touts are scum. No exceptions.

Quite right.

Even fit-looking touts in fact.  Even touts who are Wolves fans.  Even fit-looking Wolves fans.

Don't do it - please.

[smog]

There is more tickets on ebay that I thought there would be after checking.  Doubt I could make myself look remotely like any of them though - well the Kojak lookalike could be an option if I get the clippers out  

[Tugger2k]

Quite right.

Even fit-looking touts in fact.  Even touts who are Wolves fans.  Even fit-looking Wolves fans.

Don't do it - please.

dont exist!!

their like the tooth fairy. or father christmas, or god!!

[Langdale Wolf]

dont exist!!

their like the tooth fairy. or father christmas, or god!!

They do.  I'm one of them.  Not a tout, obviously.  As they're scum.

[Gutterflower]

Its not a debate when people start refering to other people on the forums as cretins etc.
I disagree with touting as much as the rest of you but i draw the line at calling people who disagree with me on here names.

but i acquiesce.
carry on if you please