I tried to buy Pixies tickets last week. I made sure I was up and online with browsers open at See Tickets for 9am on the dot, credit card details to hand. To cut a long story short the gigs were sold out by quarter past nine.
But, curiously, at ten past nine as I was getting little joy at See Tickets, with a new browser I Googled Pixies tickets to try to get one of the other promoters.
Imagine my surprise to see Seatwave and Viagogo sitting proudly at ranks 1 and 2 at the top of the Google page offering guaranteed tickets for the gigs, 5 minutes before they officially sold out.
How did this happen? Seatwave profess to be a fan to fan ticket exchange as do Viagogo.
They are now selling them for around £80 quid for a £30 ticket.
It all seems a bit too slick for it to be 'ordinary fans' doing it that quickly. I have a sneaking suspicion that the role of their staff is to snap up tickets for resale straight away. Not exactly playing fair.
It is a frustrating experience these days buying a ticket even more so because of parasites like Seatwave or Viagogo.
Fan to fan ticket exchange? Fuck off! Music fan fleecing exchange more like.
C*nts.
Posted In Comment, Jul 07 2009.
Words - The Ginger