Tickets on eBay

[bigfurbdogg]

I'm not sure I'm comfortable with that. I understand what you're saying but you're not doing the job you're paid for there, seems like a massive piss take to me

[russycarps]

if people think you can get in easily on dodgy tickets, then touts will again buy up tickets just to sell on

Try it or dont try it, everyone surely knows the risks by now

[LondonTom]

Jobsworth

[bigfurbdogg]

Nope every story like that makes it more likely people are going start to risk touts again next year.

[Sawdusty surfer]

So I presume you're hoping Smash1984's friend gets turned away then and has her weekend ruined?

[All Mod Cons.]

Jobsworth indeed...

[LondonTom]

So I presume you're hoping Smash1984's friend gets turned away then and has her weekend ruined?

Edited May 30, 2013 by LondonTom

[Leggins]

Jobsworth

[Spider43]

It's been mentioned a few times about the council mystery shopping. What exactly are they looking for? I always understood the photo on tickets was voluntarily undertaken by the festival rather than a condition of their licence?

[LondonTom]

It's been mentioned a few times about the council mystery shopping. What exactly are they looking for? I always understood the photo on tickets was voluntarily undertaken by the festival rather than a condition of their licence?

[russycarps]

I 'd guess its more a general check on how the ticket entry system is working. If their not checking the photo, how thoroughly are they checking that the ticket is genuine? Could someone else then come in on the same ticket etc.

[Mr.Tickle]

Just want to clarify why I'm uncomfortable with the posters stance on letting people in even if the photo doesn't match.

I too don't want people's weekend to be ruined and there ARE genuine reasons for people passing tickets on *for face value* to people who tried and failed to get tickets in the sale instead of wasting the money and I think that's fine...

...however...

The photo and registration exists to stop touts and make the tickets available to people who really want to go and are happy to put that little more effort in. If you start ignoring the photo and let everyone in then it makes a mockery of that and gives touts the green light to just buy as many tickets as possible and flog them on eBay for 4x the face value.

[Mr.Tickle]

What I'd like to see is a fair trade way of doing this. Maybe Glastonbury could set up a trading site where people who were registered before the ticket sale could, with the supervision of the festival "authorities", trade a ticket and have a replacement with their photo passed on with the proviso that the original ticket is sent back to them.

I genuinely think this may be a future development, maybe at the moment the price of the festival policing and setting up this system is prohibitive, I dunno.

[russycarps]

What I'd like to see is a fair trade way of doing this. Maybe Glastonbury could set up a trading site where people who were registered before the ticket sale could, with the supervision of the festival "authorities", trade a ticket and have a replacement with their photo passed on with the proviso that the original ticket is sent back to them.

I genuinely think this may be a future development, maybe at the moment the price of the festival policing and setting up this system is prohibitive, I dunno.

[Mr.Tickle]

Maybe there's not the demand but I bet demand would be higher if people knew it would be available.

The only downside is that there could be more demand on ticket day due to the fact people know they can just transfer their tickets if they decide not to go.

[LondonTom]

The only downside is that there could be more demand on ticket day due to the fact people know they can just transfer their tickets if they decide not to go.

[russycarps]

Which is the basic problem, how do you stop a trade outside of the festivals control and then they transfer using this system?

[UEF]

I wonder if the "mystery shoppers" are run by the same people as the planted "police tents"... i.e. no one and they don't exist