Tickets on eBay now!

[wikky]

there is loads of shit I can't afford all around me every day London Tom, I don't begrudge people who can afford it or the " pricks" who are selling things at prices I can't afford because they want to make a profit.

Since most people are not going to take the stupid risk of buying tickets with a photo of someone else on there I really can't see large scale touting being an issue for this festival in future. I am happy that 2 other people hopefully will get to enjoy the festival now rather than the tickets just getting fucked into the bin.

Edited June 6, 2014 by wikky

[jesternuts]

Some F@ckers only gone and bought em

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

I am happy that 2 other people hopefully will get to enjoy the festival now rather than the tickets just getting fucked into the bin.

[Yoghurt on a Stick]

Edited - double post

Edited June 6, 2014 by Yoghurt on a Stick

[wikky]

haha nighty night yoghurt on a stick

[Sawdusty surfer]

Lets get this straight - lets say you were a Volunteer - you would be willing to accept a £50 bribe ?

You do understand that if you were caught you would be kicked out of the festival and you can kiss bye bye from ever working for Glastonbury again.

I don't work on the gates but if you offered me £50 I would tell you to shove it up your arse ' as its just not worth it '

Please have some respect for Volunteers.

[Tuna]

(I've reported, btw, and sent @Glastofest a tweet. I assume lots of us have, so if you want to write down her address to add her to UKIP mailing lists or something, do so now before it gets taken down)

[glasto-worker]

Actually, not every worker is a pure as the driven snow. I know a crew member (known her for years actually) who, about five years ago drove off site and when being issued with her pass out, bunged the pair of volunteers some cash, can't remember how much, and got given three pass outs. She then used them to get two of her friends in.

I'm quite sure that this is the exception to the rule and she could have ended up in all sorts of bother.

[Badlands]

This thread is awful. Touts & Bad Grasses all over the shop.

[MrMac]

Dont agree with touting but im not a grass either, if someones silly enough to pay that kind of money and take the risk of not getting in thats up to them, and if they want to sell the ticket for that kind of money and be stupid enough to get it canceled via including to much info on the auction then get in major heat when the buyer turns up with a cancelled ticket and demands money back thats up to them.......just more proof fools are numerous, however let the foolish be foolish, im not the gig police and im certainly not going to `report them` how very authoritarian of you all!

[dimus]

This weed is awful. Toots & Bad Grass all over the shop.

[Ponyegg]

Sorry Yoghurt on a stick but I fail to see what is difficult to grasp about my opinion on it, I don't have a problem with what people choose to do with their own property so long as it is not doing harm to anyone else.

[Dave The Hedgehog]

If you have £800 to spend on a ticket, part of me thinks you lack the sort of balls it would take to try your hand at fence jumping if you really were that desperate to get in. I know who I'd respect more if they tried (and failed) to get in, and which one wants it more.

[Gnomicide]

she is very distinct looking. Pretty too. Good luck with getting in on that one

[elbongo]

These are all arguments about purposeful moral judgments. The reason the ticket system is what it is protects the overwhelming majority of festival attendees. If not in place the demand would result in thousands of these over priced tickets bought for profit.

Therefore, this type of selling demands a response similar to what we have because all moral arguments require people to stand up for their beliefs and say it's unacceptable. On the other a hand if people genuinely can't attend and also can't get their money back its unfair. This could change I believe.

For example, a lottery waiting list that exists that tickets returned for these reasons are then made available up to a week before.

I have no argument with this outrage as such, those who don't believe in standing up for what they believe is right are similar to those who don't care if UKIP gain power. Like it doesn't make any difference but it will at some point... be careful people of Britain.

sunny blue skies please... tnx

[jeffie]

The difference it makes is that the more success stories people hear of others getting in on sold on tickets means that eventually touts will start to buy them again meaning less chance of getting ticket on ticket day and more and more ridiculously priced ones in the future.

spicedmajestic

[MrMac]

If you have £800 to spend on a ticket, part of me thinks you lack the sort of balls it would take to try your hand at fence jumping if you really were that desperate to get in. I know who I'd respect more if they tried (and failed) to get in, and which one wants it more.

[Moon Monkey]

_{ZZZ Groundhog - Same every year}

_{If I didn't get a ticket I would pay over the odds to get one. Saying that if I couldn't go I wouldn't sell my ticket over face value.}

[jeffie]

If this moves all the Metallica thread can live together. Can everyone post everything on all of them please

[Dave The Hedgehog]

I'd agree that the well-off probably have more than their fair share of idiots, but it's by no means 100% of them.

[carlosj]

It seems more emotional here because it's Glastonbury with roots in openness and fairness, but if we ignore that and look at the mark up paid with no value added, it's the same as touting elsewhere, which I hate, whether it's corporate bodies snatching tickets to people outside gigs.

The argument of free choice, the ability to pay, that it's not a hanging offence, to me doesn't excuse the touting and profiteering. There are face value ways to pass on tickets, but those sites will honour the Eavii intention of avoiding touting and not sell.

Maybe those who aren't bothered by this won't be bothered if food and drink stalls inside treble their prices? Hey, it's only supply and demand, market economy, we can choose not to eat there....?

[MrMac]

whose sustainability do you really think you're contributing to when you fork out an extra £600 you wouldn't have otherwise paid? The festival's?

[Ruwise]

Ticket day is hard enough as it is with people who really want to go to the festival. Do we really want to add back into the equation professional ticket touts who see it as a opportunity to make a quick buck? I would advocate a system being brought in where people lose their deposit but can get the rest of their money back for the convenience of being able to sell all tickets through legitimate channels.

I have no problem with face value ticket sales though I wouldn't do it because I would be too worried that I wouldn't get in but touting tickets at double the price is not on and it puts the volunteers in a difficult position. I imagine some of them will let people in because they would feel bad turning down somebody who has clearly paid for a ticket and bought a lot of equipment and usually travelled a fair distance as well.

If they could get a decent enough internet connection around the site I would rather a coded system which shows your picture because then they could do all ticket transfers via See and you could just change the registration number associated to that ticket.

[Dave The Hedgehog]

I'd probably view it as a "write-off" against my own pleasure/enjoyment.

It's only a little bit more than a really nice lunch, after all (kidding!).

Edited June 6, 2014 by Dave The Hedgehog

[Gnomicide]

If this moves all the Metallica thread can live together. Can everyone post everything on all of them please