Ticket Insurance. Yes or No?

[MrZigster]

After a very near disaster in 2009, I've always gone for it.

Any thoughts?

Edited April 1, 2015 by MrZigster

[JoeyT]

Never done it in the past knowingly but have numerous times by accident!

[Leggins]

From stories I've heard it's virtually impossible to get them to pay out anyway isn't it?

[home to you]

From stories I've heard it's virtually impossible to get them to pay out anyway isn't it?

I've heard this from a few people too

[tommyds]

I don't bother, but primarily that's because I'd have to be pretty much dead to not get to glastonbury if I had a ticket

[ghostdancer1]

i don't see the point, surely if the ticket doesn't arrive you can get in contact with the ticket office and arrange for the original to be cancelled and pick up a re-issued one on-site? that's how it works for other gigs/festivals...

[Untz]

I like to live dangerously.

[sime]

I accidently got the insurance in the resale last April in the excitement of getting a ticket but I would never do it out of choice.

[kalifire]

i don't see the point, surely if the ticket doesn't arrive you can get in contact with the ticket office and arrange for the original to be cancelled and pick up a re-issued one on-site? that's how it works for other gigs/festivals...

I've heard this is near impossible - once sent, See are incredibly reluctant to replace or re-issue. You have to prove it wasn't delivered and go around the houses getting them to acknowledge it.

That said, I don't see how insurance would help.

[Tdiz]

I have never got it, would take alot for me not to go.

[MrZigster]

I was alluding to (unsuccessfully obviously) insurance for medical reasons rather than for non delivery, dog ate it type scenarios

Long story short: I was hospitalised very close to the festival in '09. Only a last minute "OK" from my GP (and I mean the Monday before the Wednesday) enabled me to go. Everybody else was against the idea (apart from a lot of support on here (my first post)). Pretty sure the idea of going kind of spurred my recovery.

Anyway, it was go or lose two hundred odd quid.

I'm pretty sure I would have had all of the paperwork and proof needed to make a claim under the T&Cs had I been insured.

Whether See would have acted arsey about it is a valid point.

It looks like I'm the only one anyway

[Smash1984]

For me it's in the same bracket as the insurance you get from some banks for your mobile. If anyone has had experience with either then you'll understand!

[jeffie]

Any idea how much it is?

Can't see it on the site

Edited April 1, 2015 by jeffie

[kalifire]

It's £5.10.

[Stretlow]

Its my first Glastonbury so I cant comment specifically but if you're getting it to cover you for delivery then don't bother, your bank will be able to retrieve the value of the purchase for goods not delivered ( I work in fraud and see this every day)

Its then down to them to prove they got the tickets to you, which they wont be able to do.

I understand of course that this doesn't help you getting into the festival.

[phillyfaddle]

Bought it for the first time this year, always ignored in the past. Hopefully I won't need it!

[MrIan]

I bought it as I was paying for a friends ticket as well. For £5.10 it's neither here nor there for me. I'd need to be hospitalised to stop me going this year!

[briddj]

Never done it in the past knowingly but have numerous times by accident!

They had to change the law last year to stop companies from auto-checking the insurance box. They basically made thousands out of people rushing to buy tickets for big events and buying without realising.

[The_Amazing_Oblong]

I voted no and have never bought it. I then went on to pay my balance and bought it, go figure.

Thing is I am driving and taking my wife and youngest son (17). I am pretty sure if I fell ill and could not go then my wife would not go and thus my son. So I would lose £750ish for the sake of saving £15.

Thanks for posting this thread as it actually got me thinking about it. Fingers crossed it's wasted money though.

[ghostdancer1]

I voted no and have never bought it. I then went on to pay my balance and bought it, go figure.

Thing is I am driving and taking my wife and youngest son (17). I am pretty sure if I fell ill and could not go then my wife would not go and thus my son. So I would lose £750ish for the sake of saving £15.

Thanks for posting this thread as it actually got me thinking about it. Fingers crossed it's wasted money though.

would you be able to reclaim if that was the case?

and would the other 2 tickets be refunded? i'd have my doubts...

[Matt42]

I'm a paranoid fuck

[pie_and_a_pint]

If you have annual travel insurance then you should be covered to a certain extent.

[DeanoL]

would you be able to reclaim if that was the case?and would the other 2 tickets be refunded? i'd have my doubts...

Well yeah that's the exact circumstance it covers, as long as you have a doctors note saying you can't go.

[briddj]

Well yeah that's the exact circumstance it covers, as long as you have a doctors note saying you can't go.

But it would only cover the one ticket, not all three. Only one person is ill. This is how they work.

[The_Amazing_Oblong]

would you be able to reclaim if that was the case?

and would the other 2 tickets be refunded? i'd have my doubts...

Yes it's in the T&C's

What we will refund?

We will refund the cost of your booking if you are unable to attend the booked event due to:

• unexpected disruption of the public transport network you could not have reasonably known about before the date or time of the booked event;
• the death, accident, or illness happening to you, a member of your immediate family or any person(s) in the group due to attend the booked event with you;
• the mechanical breakdown, accident, fire or theft en route of a private vehicle taking you to the booked event;
• jury service which you were unaware of at the time of the booking;
• burglary or fire at your residence in the 48 hours immediately before the booked event requiring attendance of the emergency services;
• you being summoned to appear at court proceedings as a witness which you were unaware of at the time of booking;
• you being a member of the armed forces and being posted overseas unexpectedly;
• adverse weather including snow, frost, fog or storm where the Police service or other Government agency have issued warnings not to travel.

The second paragraph - Death, accident, illness to you, immediate family or group.