The comments are funny.. looks like at least one of the reseller sites is advertising on channel 4's website! hahah

If previous editions of Dispatches are anything to go by, this will be an hour of repeating the same point over and over, building up to the last part and promising the worst case they can find, only for them to then repeat the same point again and then come to the most obvious conclusion possible.

Apply that to most CH4 'documentaries' these days :-/

saw119 wrote:

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Probably be of interest to some, if not all, of us!

http://www.channel4.com/programmes/dispatches/episode-guide/series-108/episode-1

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I am all for these sites.  Let some suckers pay fullprice for gigs like Hyde Park in anticipation of making a profit, only having to sell them for half price a week or two before the gig.  I have picked up a few bargains in the last couple of years, particularly the day or two before a gig.  Even funnier, one of them sent me a £50 voucher because I bought a few tickets, and all were less than face value!  Fortunately most bands I like aren't all that popular, and I get tickets cheaper this way.  

And when I have been stuck with extra tickets  due to people who can no longer make the gig or when a better gig comes up on the same night, I have been able to offload them.  Most often I get the price paid back, but have occasionally made a little profit along with the odd loss.

The way I look at it is if people didn't pay the inflated prices then these site would shut down.

The thing that gets me are the agents conditions, booking fees, and fees to print your own tickets.  I'd have rather got standing tickets for Pulp at RAH, but instead have stalls as they didn't put the standing tickets up for sale at 9am.  If I went to See Tickets to swap them, I'd be unable to.  

Yeah and that stops people who genuinly cannot go to a show for whatever reason from being able to get rid of their ticket at face value, talk about adding insult to injury.
Everyone who buys from these people is part of the problem!

I have not seen the program (but I know this, there are similar issues where I live; shows selling out in a minute and ending up on professional reseller sites a day later ...) as I am not in the UK (I wanted to because this is an issue I am passionate about but ch4 blocks me) but I have suffered before when having to resell a ticket when I couldn't go, because everyone who still needed one was getting them at half price or less from dodgy vendors.
Rather than buying at half price from them, they should be left with them completely. Yeah, maybe the venue would be half empty then, but that would maybe be more of an incentive to stop these wankers. Buying stuff at half price from dodgy sites is just greedy.

clodia wrote:

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Turning the tables would be even more so if they no one bought from them at all at any price.

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 But why should I not go to something I want to go to?  

Down the years, I have spent a small fortune on tickets for football, gigs and theatre.  Most of the time I pay full whack, sometimes I get a discount, sometimes when I'm really lucky I get a freebie, and every now and again I have to pay over the odds.  I have also been left with tickets that I have paid for when people don't turn up, trying to get something for them and often losing out.  I have sold tickets at face value when I could have got a lot more for them if I so chose.  I have sold tickets for more than they cost me, especially football tickets when the only reason I had a spare was because I went to every game in a season, and someone just wants to go to the cup final.