Advice on Buying Tickets and Touting/Scalping

[Brello]

Can anyone help me? Theres a load of us about 90 miles away from glasgow trying to get tickets including my 2 parents who are big fans too but they want to sit while we want to stand, is it possible when buying tickets to buy seated and standing at the same time? Or do you have to buy 2 seated then use a different card to buy 2 standing - i heard you can only use one card per transaction, if anyone can clear this up would be great last time i had to sit was bummed xx

[Twenty Past]

I'd Love it if.. No one bought tickets from touts,just resist and put them out of business already the tickets are listed here
http://www.seatwave.com/muse-tickets...12/perf/653126

The tickets are expensive enough without giving touts double!

Just say no to the prices.

[Brello]

Its disgusting!!! Just checking the glasgow prices £200 a ticket there has to be ways to stop touting or atleast scale it down. Makes me so angry!!!

[005]

Originally Posted by Brello

Can anyone help me? Theres a load of us about 90 miles away from glasgow trying to get tickets including my 2 parents who are big fans too but they want to sit while we want to stand, is it possible when buying tickets to buy seated and standing at the same time? Or do you have to buy 2 seated then use a different card to buy 2 standing - i heard you can only use one card per transaction, if anyone can clear this up would be great last time i had to sit was bummed xx

Yes you can buy 2 seats & 2 std, as long as you don't exceed the maximum amount of tickets allocated per transaction purchase, it usually ranges 4, 6 or 8 but its likely to be 4

[005]

Remember people, any tickets for anything that Seatwave have, have been allocated to by the Promoter

[followthereaper]

Well despite despite being told I had got tickets and to wait for email - it appears that I havent got them after all - thanks a lot Crowd Surge. Also I dont have money available to go to box office tomorrow and buy some. There was no need to process our payments until we were successful..if the money wasnt in our account then we didnt get tickets - it would have been down to us.
I am sick of being constantly ripped off over gig tickets and and am planning on taking the whole issue before parliament...your booking fees are used by ticket agents as 'sweeteners' paid to the venues so that they get the right to sell the tickets at over inflated prices...I am in the process of making enquiries as to how best to tackle this.If anyone wants to show their support then follow me on Twitter or email me and I'll keep you posted. The Muse message boards are not the appropriate way to communicate on this issue.
twitter: cobhc666
email: followthereaper@mac.com
many thanks

[Ross]

Originally Posted by SNTR2012

Number of Tickets:
1
Type of Ticket(s):
Seating
Date of Show:
Friday, 27th October
Venue/City:
O2 Arena, London
Available For:
Swap
Swap Requirements:
1 Seating on Row K for 1 Standing. Willing to pay £25 for the difference! (you'll be gaining a happy profit, and a lifetime friend)
Other Information:
PM me if you're interested, thanks!

Originally Posted by benjamari

Number of Tickets:
2
Type of Ticket(s):
Seated Tier 1
Date of Show:
26th October
Venue/City:
London O2 Arena
Available For:
Swap
Swap Requirements:
Preferably standing, wouldn't mind tier 1 in a different location.
Other Information:
Eventually got tickets for seated, tier 1 for the 26th, but would prefer a different location. pm for more details.

Originally Posted by Fox1304

Number of Tickets:
2
Type of Ticket(s):
seated, 404 box
Date of Show:
26th Friday
Venue/City:
O2 London
Available For:
Swap
Swap Requirements:
2 lower seats, preferably in boxes 101/102/111/112, this venue or the one on Saturday.
Other Information:
Would prefer a in-hand swap. I'll arrive at London the day before, and will be available for swapping then.
Feel free to PM me for any offer.

With regards to musebay, can I ask that we please treat folk with a today join date with a TINY bit of suspicion until we see that they actually participate on the board? It seems all to coincidental that they've joined so recently when taken in concordance with Niall pointing out that touts had discovered the presalea

[Batman.]

I think we should all just agree to not buy tickets until a week before the gigs, when all the touts will shit themselves thinking nobody wants the tickets, and (hopefully) put them up for less than face value

I'm dreaming, of course, but that would be great.

[keithchad]

There may be a legitimate reason to sell a ticket, there can never be a legitimate reason to sell a ticket at double or more the face value.
Tout sites should be banned and scalping should be made illegal as it is blatent profitering.

The artists and promoters are ultimatly the people who can stop this, the easiest thing they could do is to not involve Ticketmaster (or assosiated companies) in the distribution and sale of tickets.

[Unspoken]

In talks with a guy from Musebay who's selling 4 tickets for second night of O2. He's never posted but has been a member since 2009. He said he'd show proof of booking/confirmation, should I go for it?

[Oh Hannah]

I know this Is probably the wrong place to ask this but is anyone selling 3 Glasgow tickets?

[FabriPav]

Originally Posted by HannahG123

I know this Is probably the wrong place to ask this but is anyone selling 3 Glasgow tickets?

Check Musebay, I saw some people selling Glasgow tickets earlier

[Oh Hannah]

Originally Posted by FabriPav

Check Musebay, I saw some people selling Glasgow tickets earlier

I checked and they are all up for swaps its for my friend who didn't realise they had sold out

[FabriPav]

Originally Posted by HannahG123

I checked and they are all up for swaps its for my friend who didn't realise they had sold out

Oh then I just hope you find them

[Oh Hannah]

Originally Posted by FabriPav

Oh then I just hope you find them

Turns out 2 of my friends already got them and the third guy just bought them for £100!