Tickets on Ebay again !

[newportcounty1]

It's not like the person selling the tickets has snapped up 50 tickets is it? Maybe it's a genuine sale and if so it's given someone else the chance of a ticket! I can't really see them getting loads of people to register with their photo's just to sell on to Ebay can you?

[Rufus Gwertigan]

To stop people touting their tickets for a huge profit?

Edited April 13, 2010 by Rufus Gwertigan

[Wanderlei]

Why do people always want to dictate to others what they can and can't do? Would people want to report the guy if he had bought an antique and was selling it for profit? It's nothing to get worked up about, imo. If some fool wants to buy a ticket for that price, let them. They deserve to be out of pocket. Let the seller make a nice little profit that he can enjoy. Like someone said, it's not like he snapped up 50 tickets.

[farewellandgoodnight]

I can't see a problem with this. Like others have said it may the the only chance somebody has to get a ticket. Yes touts are c*nts but this isn't somebody who's stolen somebody's chance at a ticket by buying loads to sell for a profit.

These tickets were given to the seller and they'll either get sold to somebody who otherwise would miss out or end up going to waste. Not touting at all in my opinion.

The price is a bit steep but that's a buy it now price not a minimum bid price. Live and let live in this case i say.

[denwyn]

But touts are C***s

[The Dawg]

I am not into dictating to others what they can and cannot do nor am I getting worked about the resale. That's also not the point of a lot of peoples issues here.

What I think, fwiw, is that it's pretty shitty trick to wait until after the resale where some people are utterly gutted that they didn't manage to get tickets and then to see a couple of top dollar tickets 'flogged on' for profit.

Why not just send them back. Too much greed around these days.

[ethereal]

I got one of these (non-photo) tickets off ebay for 2007, with about 4 days to go.

Honest guy selling at face-value, couldn't believe my luck. He even emailed me after to apologise for the rain

[farewellandgoodnight]

I am not into dictating to others what they can and cannot do nor am I getting worked about the resale. That's also not the point of a lot of peoples issues here.

What I think, fwiw, is that it's pretty shitty trick to wait until after the resale where some people are utterly gutted that they didn't manage to get tickets and then to see a couple of top dollar tickets 'flogged on' for profit.

Why not just send them back. Too much greed around these days.

[Sawdusty surfer]

Before i started chainsaw carving for a living i used to be a full time unicyclist (anyone remember "Gerald, the Unicycling Camel?") and we used to get booked by the Circus Field. We always had a couple of extra tickets and we used to swap them for services rendered at the festival.....baby sitters. is that any different from selling them?

now i work in the greenfields and it is said that plenty of people there get bugger all budget for the work that they do and try to cover their expenses by selling the odd ticket or two.if they couldn't do that they wouldn't be able to afford to go and you wouldn't be able to enjoy what they provide. these are not professional touts, usually normal skint bods trying to cover their costs.

for crew tickets no ID or photo is required, so ticket transfer is hassle free.

i hate touts that do it for a quick buck. crew ticket selling is somewhat different.

i don't sell my tickets but give them to a few mates who have been helping me out for years. for a ticket they turn up at my place, work their butts off for a few days , then go to pilton a week before the festival and work their butts off for another 3 of 4 days.

then they work for another couple of days after the festival packing up....................all for a ticket. two weeks of graft for nowt. i love them to bits. there is absolutely no way i could afford to pay them. the budget i get from the greenfields doesn't even pay for the Danish Oil i put on my carvings........................never mind diesel (11 deliveries last year), lost production, carvings getting stolen, damage, food and beer etc....

so if you have a problem with a few folk selling crew tickets on ebay i suspect you haven't seen the bigger picture. if i had excess tickets (dream on) i would feel fine about selling them on and i know i would still make a huge loss over the festival.

[bombfrog]

Basically I agree with what most people on this page have said, I don't see a problem with this. People will sell them for whatever people think they're worth. No buyer, no sale. Simple really.

[brandycoke]

plenty of people there get bugger all budget for the work that they do and try to cover their expenses by selling the odd ticket or two

[droneoid]

Wow 2 ticket out of of how many... Leave them to it. Maybe they need the cash.. times are tight

[farewellandgoodnight]

I can understand covering your expenses. re: the tickets on e-bay at the moment, the seller is looking to get £950 for the pair.

I'd like to know anyone ( barring dodgy MP's) who make that amount on expenses.

[Rufus Gwertigan]

I can understand covering your expenses. re: the tickets on e-bay at the moment, the seller is looking to get £950 for the pair.

I'd like to know anyone ( barring dodgy MP's) who make that amount on expenses.

[Boris]

How easy are the Crew tickets to forge? Since they need no photo or ID I hope they have damn good security and that it gets properly checked- although I bet it doesn't. If touts catch on to this we might find there's suddenly an extra 50,000 clowns and Chainsaw Jugglers this year!

NB: If this does happen I can imagine the stage announcements: 'If you are worried that you have taken the 'brown acid' tabs, you can relax, they are duds and there really are 50,000 clowns onsite. If you actually have taken acid, we advise that you go to your tents and hide! Avoid anyone with a red nose or large feet on the way!'

Edited April 13, 2010 by Boris

[usatoglas]

I dont see a problem with this really. Guys get given tickets as part payment. What do GfL expect him to do with them. give them to mates. Dont pay his rent does it.

I bought 2 reading tickets a couple of years ago and we couldnt go. Put them on ebay with a make me an offer type of button and some lady buying 2 tickets for her 2 16 year old sweehearts offered me 600quid

I promptly turned it down and sold them at face value to 2 touts bimbling along the road

[Derby_Dave]

I hope you meant that ironically!

The person selling the tickets must be an actual circus performer.

It's not some professional operation snapping up all the tickets before the normal folk get a chance.

I'd imagine swinging from the trapeze / riding a lemur doesn't pay well so good luck to them!

[al_coholic]

First proper ticket I have seen on there this year, notice no photo though and someone has still bidded for it, really strange

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[MrZigster]

First proper ticket I have seen on there this year, notice no photo though and someone has still bidded for it, really strange

ebay ticket

Edited May 8, 2010 by MrZigster

[The Dawg]

First proper ticket I have seen on there this year, notice no photo though and someone has still bidded for it, really strange

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[frodoisdead]

Ticket face value £110? I wish...

[ramragon]

Ticket face value £110? I wish...

[George Saguna]

Personally Glasto's way of selling tickets has come a long way. Its safe for us who are getting the tickets and we still have the chance to get refunded for the tickets with in good time.

The security of such ticket sales is so reassuring. Some of my friends a wile ago had bought tickets to go to a concert in Amsterdam. Flights, hotel , transfers and a double the value ticket to enter the concert. All set and done, every thing wet great until they came to pass their ticket and they got told that they were fake tickets.

They thought me a lesson, never get your tickets from a third party, its simply not worth it. Think in advance to get what you want, and if you don't then its your fault, but there will surely be an other concert with similar line ups.

If any thing I suggest that tickets should be sold back to the festival organizers and then people who have booked could get their ticket from the gates (maybe a priority list could be made too). I dont know how many of you remember when there were no photos on the tickets, people were free to get as many tickets as they liked for resale and there were none left for the normal person in the street. Which left us with the only possibility to get a ticket at more then twice the face value. Think about it what have these people done to deserve such profits, they just moved a mouse and pressed a couple of keys, that is a rip off.

Edited May 8, 2010 by George Saguna

[cran]

I don't have a problem with this personally, no paying festival goer has lost out because of this, there's no less tickets available.

I understand people bleating about it being wrong, wouldn't dream of telling people what to think, but running straight to ebay and the festival to grass someone up stinks more than anything else.

[Mackem]

We should all cast our minds back to the bad old days when we had to spend all day pressing refresh on ticket day while half the tickets were being snapped up by touts who sold them back to us at exhorbitant mark ups. The Glasto ticket system - and eBay policing - has stopped all that. Anything that gives people the idea that GF have taken their eye off the ball will be seen as a green light for the touts to come flooding back. There is a danger of that anyway because the photo ID system is very casually policed at the gate - I know several people who have used the tickets of people they look nothing like (a different race in one case!) and had no problem getting in. It's only a matter of time before this stops being mates swapping tickets and reverts back to touting.

I'm sure GF - which, lets remember, puts its profits into good causes, unlike any other festival - did not hand out tickets to performers for them to sell to others at inflated prices. Not for them to cock a snook at - and hence jeapordise - their no-eBay policy.

I say hang the bastard LOL