On-line ticket agencies rip off merchants

[TAK]

I'm getting the right hump with these agencies, it seems a licence to print money, they have the monopoly on tickets and stitch you up.

Last week I booked two tickets for the Don't try this at home live show through Ticket Master and was charge £ 3:50 per ticket booking fee and then for some reason the added on a further £ 4 odd per ticket admin fee, outrageous!

I know the simple answer is don't use them but how else can you buy tickets, if you ring places like the Academy or Shepherd Bush Empire Box office you get put through to their telephone counterparts and may as well do it on-line.

I thought the idea of doing these things on-line was to reduce costs.

[Batsta]

Originally posted by TAK
Last week I booked two tickets for the Don't try this at home live show through Ticket Master and was charge £ 3:50 per ticket booking fee and then for some reason the added on a further £ 4 odd per ticket admin fee, outrageous!


Know what you mean! With Admin & posting fees, i got 2 tickets for Paul Weller for £62!

[Twyford Bee]

When I went to see Suede last November, the 2 tickets came to about £33 I think but the surchages would've been another £10 on top of that! So I dispatched my dad to get them in person from the Empire, zero booking fees :)

[nickmurphy30]

Agreed - this is one of my pet wind ups. Even if you buy a bunch of tickets for different gigs at the same time they insist on charging a fortune for multiple P&Ps. Nonsense. But there is nothing you can do. Or is there...any advice out there...is this challengable???

[A Wooden Fish On Wheels]

Apparently some booking sites are already selling Glastonbury tickets when they have not yet gone on sale or been allocated, come to that they haven't even decided how much they are going to be yet!!!