Drunken Bungle Whore

Don't buy many tickets to gigs but just tried to via Ticketmaster.

£17 per ticket
£3.50 booking fee per ticket
£4.95 secure postage fee

FFS I can buy e-tickets to get on a bloody aeroplane - why can't this be automated?!!! (Yeah, I know why, because then Ticketmaster wouldn't make their millions.... )

The gig is at London ULU - anyone any ideas about getting around the £11.95 mark-up?

Freak

In the US you can buy E-tickets from ticketmaster for a lot of events...
Useful for me because I can sell them on without having to wait for the physical ones to get lost in the post
Booking fee is a pisstake tho- should just raise the price to £20.50 so you don't know exactly how much they are fleecing you. As a percentage, that is far too high a booking fee.

Jerome

I've thought for some time that the monopoly that is Ticketmaster is an outrage.

The only way this will change is if people boycott them, which won't happen as they obviously want to see the gig.

Leslie

I can't believe those side charges. Thats sheer greed!

Les

InvisibleMan

its because they seem to be the only one selling these. Or dare i say it artistes potentiousness?

Abdabz

I bought 3 tickets for Bill Bailey at the MEN in Manchester through Ticketmaster - £25 each plus £3.50 booking fee plus £4.95 postage... 2 days later no email confirmation so I raise a query through the website...
The automated response was no use and no contact numbers were offered so a day later and still no confirmation I reluctantly re-order.
Sure enough 3 days later 2 sets of tickets arrive at my door - despite only ever getting confirmation for the second order...
I decide to send back the first set (as the second set are nearer to the front) only to see in the small print that refunds are not available unless the show is cancelled...
I guess it's up to ebay then...
They are a shower of sheeite

SiPie

More annoying was buying tickets for a recent small Stephen Fretwell gig form ENT.24

Tickets £10 plus £2.75 fee plus postage of £1.50 or similar

Tickets fail to arrive

No problems sir, the agent has failed to release these in time but you can collect these at the venue door, it's our priority to get you in sir etc etc blah blah

Gig ends up not quite being a sell out and tickets being sold on the night for £10

So ent24.com fleece me for a fiver for doing **** all

They are all as bad as each other IMHO

InvisibleMan

looked at ent24 but they use ticketmaster, so they probably have their slice as well as TM