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Post by vinylmojo on Sept 8, 2017 17:46:35 GMT
Hi all - many of you may have seen the fans anger at the fiasco of presale and general sale tickets through ticketmaster this week. I was lucky and got 2 tickets at about 5.30pm on Wednesday - even though presale began at 10am. Within seconds, many tickets were on sale at up to 8 times the price on various websites including GetmeIn which happens to be linked to Ticketmaster!! Many fans missed out in the presale and sounds like much the same happened today. It's all very well when the demand is there, they sell out, you miss out - but to simply pass them on to other pages to make a profit is simply wrong. I've contacted Ticketmaster about it and just got a big standard reply. I also contacted Watchdog and Martin Lewis, consumer expert and am awaiting replies. Apparently the same thing happens a lot with Ticketmaster- anyone have experience of this? I really feel strongly about it, it's genuine music fans who are missing out x I wanted to get tickets for The Killers. To get access to presale you had to buy the album. I went on to get tickets through presale and never got them. It's a big rip off to boost album sales. The government should clamp down on touts but they don't. Not true, you never have to buy an album for pre-sale codes, there's always a "No purchase necessary link" in the e-mail or on the web page itself (I think it's some consumer law thing), read through carefully, I get pre-sale codes this way all the time, through artists web sites, Amazon etc. |
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Post by bumblejaybee on Sept 8, 2017 17:49:48 GMT
I wanted to get tickets for The Killers. To get access to presale you had to buy the album. I went on to get tickets through presale and never got them. It's a big rip off to boost album sales. The government should clamp down on touts but they don't. Not true, you never have to buy an album for pre-sale codes, there's always a "No purchase necessary link" in the e-mail or on the web page itself (I think it's some consumer law thing), read through carefully, I get pre-sale codes this way all the time, through artists web sites, Amazon etc. That was the only option that The Killers had to get access to their presale. |
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Post by vinylmojo on Sept 8, 2017 17:49:52 GMT
Well done on getting tickets Vinylmojo. I did too - but many people didn't. It really is wrong that tickets were 'sold out' and then put straight onto other sites at extortionate prices. The whole system needs to be regulated. Am going to do some googling when I get a chance and make official complaints. Us music fans need to stand up to the touts!!! You're fighting a losing battle, save your energy, concentrate on getting your own tickets for the events you want to go see, put as much energy into that as possible, at least you're in control of that, the touts thing will never go away, and you'll just end up getting yourself all wound up as you are now. I don't disagree that something somewhere needs to change though in the future to get more tickets into fans hands for the right prices. |
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Post by bumblejaybee on Sept 8, 2017 17:50:45 GMT
Bumblebeejay - this is obviously a common pattern - was that with ticketmaster as well?? Yeah, it was indeed. |
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Post by vinylmojo on Sept 8, 2017 17:55:03 GMT
Not true, you never have to buy an album for pre-sale codes, there's always a "No purchase necessary link" in the e-mail or on the web page itself (I think it's some consumer law thing), read through carefully, I get pre-sale codes this way all the time, through artists web sites, Amazon etc. That was the only option that The Killers had to get access to their presale. I got a code and didn't buy the album, I didn't even use it, I gave it away to someone else who wanted it. I've just searched my old e-mails for it. (The person who I gave the code to was sucesfull in their attempt to buy tickets as well, so it was win win for everyone) |
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Post by bumblejaybee on Sept 8, 2017 17:58:53 GMT
That was the only option that The Killers had to get access to their presale. I got a code and didn't buy the album, I didn't even use it, I gave it away to someone else who wanted it. I've just searched my old e-mails for it. (The person who I gave the code to was sucesfull in their attempt to buy tickets as well, so it was win win for everyone) I certainly didn't get that option on email I got. |
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Post by vinylmojo on Sept 8, 2017 18:08:16 GMT
I got a code and didn't buy the album, I didn't even use it, I gave it away to someone else who wanted it. I've just searched my old e-mails for it. (The person who I gave the code to was sucesfull in their attempt to buy tickets as well, so it was win win for everyone) I certainly didn't get that option on email I got. It wasn't on the e-mail, it was after you clicked the e-mail to take you to the purchase options. Don't beat yourself up about it, the free option doesn't exactly stand out, you've got to look the full page up and down (it's obviously not there now) At the end of the day, they want you to buy the album and don't exactly advertise the free way, the free bit is just something they have to put on by some consumer legislation. They normally make it in smaller writing compared to the rest of the page as well. |
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Post by lindas on Sept 8, 2017 19:57:20 GMT
I would have bought the album anyway so am not bothered about that. It's the fact that people are profiting from so called sold out tickets which I think is wrong. I still can't believe that I've got tickets to be honest - I keep checking my ticketmaster account to make sure they are still there!!!
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Post by bumblejaybee on Sept 29, 2017 13:36:22 GMT
His solo stuff is growing on me a bit. Greedy Soul sounds like it could be off Dig Out Your Soul.
For What It's Worth is a decent ballad sounding song.
I still think Chinatown is a pretty poor song.
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Post by highroyds on Oct 6, 2017 8:04:31 GMT
I really like the album.
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Post by vinylmojo on Oct 6, 2017 18:35:51 GMT
It's getting a debut spin from me tomorrow night, I've got the White Vinyl lined up and ready to go, I've got a feeling it's gonna be a good one  |
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Post by lindas on Oct 12, 2017 21:28:57 GMT
I'm loving the new album - For What it's Worth and Greedy Soul are my faves x
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Post by dingo on Oct 13, 2017 15:29:16 GMT
I fell in love with When I'm in need right away. But loving the whole album and I'm so happy for him that it turns out to be such a success. No excuses not to do another one then!
Also, I'm having the worst time of my life at the moment and Liam's whole campaign, the songs, interviews, live clips, memories of a magical night in Dublin in June and now the album, helps me immensly to cheer up a bit and get distracted.
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Post by lindas on Nov 2, 2017 8:37:29 GMT
Following my nightmare trying to buy tickets, I was very relieved when they arrived yesterday!! 😊
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Post by clouds on Nov 2, 2017 17:16:56 GMT
The ticket situation was a farce but luckily I managed to get tickets for Manchester!
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