Folks

whats the craic with this continuation of online touting, with ebay and the site viagogo which is advertising on at least three sites I've been on today, including cluas.com.

Within minutes, ebay was awash with hooers flaunting €35 tickets for way above face value.Its an auction site or whatever and theres a demand, balls...there is a demand because folk cannot buy face value tickets because if these fly by night touts.

Viagogo, online touts have a lorry load of tickets selling from minimum £100 up to £500, minutes after they went on sale to the general public

Very little angers me, but this sh!t does

Plus, ticketsheister.com taking £8.50 per ticket (!!!), sweet jesus how is this allowed to happen? has easier money ever been made or ordinary folk ever had the hand taken out of them as much

ebay, ticketmaster, viagogo, pollutions one and all

happy Friday

PQ

Those Viagogo ads are generated by Google googling the site for keywords; CLUAS isn't promoting Viagogo or any other above-face-value outlet. (For me, it makes a change from the 'Are You Single In Paris?' ads that tend to flank the FL blog.) The gaffer can explain this better than I can.

So did anyone get U2 tickets, then? Or even intending to?

wasnt having a go @ cluas,

or u2 for that matter, just the touting that goes on and folk making money off tickets for doing fcuk all..the amount of folk at it...receptionist at our work, absolutely zero interest in music of any description was on ticketmaster first clip this morning, says i to her, 'are you heading down?' 'no way says she, gonna flog them on'...the lord wept

it was a toss up between u2 and glasgowbury, both on the same weekend, glasgowbury won hands down...roll on Eagles Rock

PQ

Well, I've recently discovered toutless.com and have used it to flog a spare ticket for Animal Collective. Tickets sold at face value. Works for me.

I have to say those Viagogo ads have been getting on my wick. Will see if I can get Google Adsense to filter them out.

I managed this a.m. to bag 2 of the 35 euro tickets for the Friday Croker gig. I also managed last week to get my grubby mits on 2 tickets to the first of their 2 Amsterdam gigs. In both cases it was through the public sale. Although I had to play a few of the usual brute-force web browser tricks to so (i.e. constantly hitting thre F5 button for the Futch tickets, and for the Croker sale I had three browsers on the go at the same time, Firefox, IE and Safari and one of them came up with the goods).

I have just placed a filter on the CLUAS Google Adsense account filter for viagogo.co.uk. The ads should stop soon...

Question is where does the free market start and end though? and whats so sacred about gigs compared to a house or a car or a painting etc. If you own something and want to sell it surely demand decides the price. If you have a ticket for a gig that isn't sold out to get rid of it you'll have to drop below face value. Touting suits promoters it results in faster ticket sales. The casual fan who buy a ticket a few months after tickets go on sale as opposed to the tout who buys day one. Personally if i can't get a ticket I won't pay a touted price. It's the market that creates the touts.

Question is where does the free market start and end though? and whats so sacred about gigs compared to a house or a car or a painting etc. If you own something and want to sell it surely demand decides the price. If you have a ticket for a gig that isn't sold out to get rid of it you'll have to drop below face value. Touting suits promoters it results in faster ticket sales. The casual fan who buy a ticket a few months after tickets go on sale as opposed to the tout who buys day one. Personally if i can't get a ticket I won't pay a touted price. It's the market that creates the touts.

I agree.