Adele tickets question

justperfect · January 22, 2016

Ok, quick question I'd like to get a different opinion on

I bought my partner and her mate tickets for Adele’s UK tour (manchester). My name is on the tickets and both the venue and see tickets are saying entry will be refused unless the ticket holder who's name is printed is there om the night. I work away during the week so impossible to get back.

Is this practice even legal?

Any thing you recommend I can do?

**The Nal** · January 22, 2016

Does it say anything about bringing ID? Otherwise they'll just scan them and let the girlies in.

**Yoghurt on a Stick** · January 22, 2016

You could give your partner loads of non photo ID. Then when she's questioned about not being male she can kick up a fuss about being transgender and actually having proof to show that she takes his identity seriously enough to have had her name changed. She can threaten to go to the media about how anti trans gender the venue is etc.

Or she could just show a little too much of her baps on the way in and the bouncers will be too busy drooling to even notice that it's a male's name on the ticket(s).

t8yman · January 22, 2016

just turn up, they will check nothing. they will scan the tickets and wave them in. they have neither the manpower, nor the inclination to check 11000 peoples id.

justperfect · January 22, 2016

She'd be devastated if she got refused. And I'd be the best part of £180 out of pocket.

A true dilemma

**Yoghurt on a Stick** · January 22, 2016

Sounds like you've got / she's got no other choice than to go for it. Wishing you well.

LondonTom · January 23, 2016

Yeah depends if they are taking it seriously or not, Radiohead and I think Arctic Monkeys have actually took it seriously on the door I think (and another show at Wembley arena, maybe QoTSA) and you won't know until the first shows I suppose.

I'd write to Seetickets, I am sure a letter with the card used to book would clear it up and they would have a way around it, without letting the touts in.

t8yman · January 23, 2016

Just give her your card to take with her. I may have been a little dismissive earlier - it just winds me up when the industry tries to give the appearance of giving a shit about touting - when they clearly don't.

ThomThomDrum · January 23, 2016

Was your name automatically put on all tickets as your card was used? If that's the case they would probably just want to match the tickets with the card if anything at all, so just give her the card to bring and I'd say it's grand. No tout gives their card to punters and the industry knows plenty of tickets are bought as presents.

Any questions asked and answered with my boyfriend bought me these as a present and here is the card to prove it should be met with a reasonable response of "that makes sense on you go" and that's only if questions are asked.....I personally doubt they will