Robbo wrote:I rarely go to concerts, but I tried to buy tickets for blink 182 last year on ticketmaster, Was a member of the official blink 182 website which gave me a chance to get pre sale tickets. Logged in with time to spare, they'd all gone in minutes, I Had no luck at all. So I tried the o2 pre sale thing, where again I didn't stand a chance, so then tried with ticket master when they went on general sale. And again the website was useless and I had no luck again. There was nothing I could do, to me it seems to be a case of being lucky enough to get through to the server rather than being online on time... I ended up paying £100 quid on seatwave for a ticket worth £30. and what about the "unfortunate" people who work and cant access the net when tickets go on sale?
Seat wave had hundreds of tickets up for sale for a big profit within an hour of them coming out on general release, touting outside a venue is one thing... but it's getting a bit out of hand when fans who are desperately trying to get tickets can't because of the hundreds of people getting hold of tickets with the sole intention of selling them on at a profit.
I feel like a mug tbh for paying so much, and if desperate people like me decided not to pay extortionate money to these selfish d1cks for tickets then maybe we wouldn't have this issue. But if I wanna go to the concert, i've gotta get one by any means necessary....
I have absolutely no issue with people ending up with spares for face value, and there are a few good people out there who do that. But imo this whole selling for profit thing needs to be stopped.
Yeah I had a similar experience with the Stone Roses gigs.
Logged on well in advance, couldn't get them. Nor could my brother or old man.
10 mins later, lots on Ebay. Genuine fans do miss out.
I never pay more that face value (plus fees) EVER. 
