Over Priced Concert Tickets On Ebay

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Is anyone else annoyed at trying to buy ticekts for a concert, or any event, only to find out its sold out. Not only is it sold out but there's hundreds of tickets being sold on ebay for quadruple the face value. Take AC/DC's uk tour for example. All dates sold out in a matter of minutes, 40 a ticket (45 in London). Half an hour later tickets started appearing on ebay for 200. 24 hours later 355 auctions for the London gig alone!!! (excluding auctions that had already finished) All single tickets were being sold around the 200 plus mark. I'm a genuine music fan, and like many other music fans, love going to live gigs. Unfotunately, its a sad world where touts are willing to exploit genuine fans. Who knows where the touts got their money to buy the tickets from and where the money will end up (drugs, trafficing). All I ask is for people to sign this petition so ebay will take note that genuine music fans are getting ripped off. I propose that ebay should stop the sale of concert tickets.

27 Signatures

Michael Duffy
myo
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- i want face value.
adam
Roy Evans
Rob
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- Totally agree, this is crime and it should be stopped
Andre Mc Ateer
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- Promoters bands official ticket outlets and ebay should all do somthing about this.
Steven Grimley
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- ticket touting whether on the street outside the venue or online is killing live music!!! NEVER BUY A TICKET OF A TOUT
Bryn Nulty
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- Whilst no one is "forced" to pay over the odds for the tickets it's sad to see that a good portion have been snapped up by greedy wankers to leach off of real fans for the sake of it. Get a backbone and a real job.
Martin Minney
Adam Chelidonis
Leon Felgate
Ian Edwards
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- This must be stopped
Bob Hawkswell
Kieron Atkinson
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- I have missed several gigs now due to tout scum, and eventhough their income will be impared it's about time ebay took some action or should be forced somehow to do the right thing.
Richard Amies
Francesca Webb
Mark Cox
paul ollier
Boyd Lynn
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- This is an outrage
Mary
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- HOW DARE YOU SUGGEST THIS MONEY WOULD BE USED IN DRUG TRAFFICING. IF I BUY A TICKET ITS UP TOO ME WHAT I DO WITH IT. GET UP EARLY ENOUGH AND GET A TICKET IF ITS THAT IMPORTANT TOO YOU . DUMB ASS
Patrick Doublin
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- WE NEED TO STOP THIS RIP OFF OF FANS!!
caroline waight
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- i agree, recent experience was that muse tickets didnt even show up for sale on line with ticketmaster?? just dont know whats going on, and i refuse to pay silly prices as money does not go to band, it should always be about the music not about the profits, good luck.
Jason Delaney
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- I completely agree, it is going to have a huge effect on the industry and ebay just don't care.
Kelly Dutton
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- takes the piss. tried to buy peter kay tickets this morning. thousands of tickets allegedly sold out within an hour. all phone lines and internet sites busy...ebay had 463 seperate autions running each selling multiple tickets for 4x face value. please stop buying from these sites.
denise
Kristine Jones
nigel smith
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- its disgusting... my wife and myself love concerts of all types and can no longer get tickets because of these "touts" that we thought was a criminal offence..!! good luck!!!