now things are back to normal

Paul Heaton next month at Castlefield

Foo Fighters next year Old Trafford Cricket

can't find the old thread

20 hours ago, Zico said:

tickets for Yeah Yeah Yeahs on sale tomorrow

2 gigs in June, Manchester and London

they put on a good show

none of this should be a surprise anymore

but

2 tickets - £38.50 each

fine

but then

Facility Charge £1.50 x 2
Service Charge £5.60 x 2

and top it off
Handling Fee £2.75

they're etickets

so at least I didn't have to pay for delivery

£93.95

I'd rather they just said 

tickets are £47 each, no hidden extras

23 minutes ago, Zico said:

none of this should be a surprise anymore

but

2 tickets - £38.50 each

fine

but then

Facility Charge £1.50 x 2
Service Charge £5.60 x 2

and top it off
Handling Fee £2.75

they're etickets

so at least I didn't have to pay for delivery

£93.95

I'd rather they just said 

tickets are £47 each, no hidden extras

Stormzy tickets were £49 plus 3 different fees

It ended up being £62

Twickets reselling then at £49.50 no fees 

Ill never buy off ticketmaster again

Edited March 18, 20224 yr by Rudy

Yes, finally 

 

Email this morning

Kaiser Chiefs supported by wait for it…..

The Fratellis

Fuck me id rather plait shite

1 hour ago, Rudy said:

Email this morning

Kaiser Chiefs supported by wait for it…..

The Fratellis

Fuck me id rather plait shite

Did the email come from 2008?

1 hour ago, Traf said:

Did the email come from 2008?

Not sure, got another email 10% off stolen from Ivor 

Of my top 5 live acts (based on fun I have their shows rather than musical talent) I've already seen 2 since the end of lockdown in Skindred and Alestorm.

Just got tickets for The Hell at the Star and Garter to tick off number 3.

Metallica need to do a tour for number 4 and someone will have to resurrect Lemmy so Motorhead can tour again to round off the quintet.

BODEGA were absolutely belting last night.

Got tickets for Fairplay Festival in Manchester next Saturday, going straight after Wigan. Meatraffle at The Peer Hat will be class.

Honestly tempted to buy a ticket just for their half hour in case they do Ndrangheta Allotment.

On 25/03/2022 at 18:55, ErnestTurnip said:

Honestly tempted to buy a ticket just for their half hour in case they do Ndrangheta Allotment.

You should do

Saw Doctors touring in December. Pissed off I didn't know earlier coz they're all sold out now. Gna be a Twickets job with a bit of luck.

Not quite the same but Flogging Molly are out and about in August including the Ritz.

2 hours ago, ErnestTurnip said:

Not quite the same but Flogging Molly are out and about in August including the Ritz.

I'll be there. Always wild at the front at Flogging Molly gigs. Especially when The Bronx supported them last time they played there.

Got two Glastonbury tickets in the resale this morn. Roll on June, walking down the train tracks, the smell of veggie curry and the sound of distant bongo drums.

10 hours ago, tshape said:

Got two Glastonbury tickets in the resale this morn. Roll on June, walking down the train tracks, the smell of veggie curry and the sound of distant bongo drums.

Me too fella    Bearded as a warm up in May first though.

Glastonbury just doesn't appeal anymore. In fact watching gigs not in Brixton doesn't appeal anymore.

On 18/03/2022 at 09:49, Zico said:

none of this should be a surprise anymore

but

2 tickets - £38.50 each

fine

but then

Facility Charge £1.50 x 2
Service Charge £5.60 x 2

and top it off
Handling Fee £2.75

they're etickets

so at least I didn't have to pay for delivery

£93.95

I'd rather they just said 

tickets are £47 each, no hidden extras

But how does everyone make their money? That's the shakedown and everyone's in on it. Its not nice, but there it is.

6 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

Glastonbury just doesn't appeal anymore. In fact watching gigs not in Brixton doesn't appeal anymore.

You go to Brixton? Wagwan my brudda

Always wanted to experience glasto, but the lineup this year is horrendous

Do enjoy watching it on the Tele

Determined to get to glastonbury before i turn 40. Posh tent though innit. Not with the commoners 

17 minutes ago, Not in Crawley said:

But how does everyone make their money? That's the shakedown and everyone's in on it. Its not nice, but there it is.

It feels like a different set of fees everytime i buy a ticket 

I'm sure there only ever used to be an admin fee 

I don't even know what the difference between a service and facility charge is  

But the service charge for NIN was £2.20 more than YYYs per ticket 

But proportionally less of the ticket price 

The other fees were the same 

So seems random

I'm not arsed as such, like i said, just round it all up and don't break it down  

19 minutes ago, Rudy said:

You go to Brixton? Wagwan my brudda

Its 10 minutes from my house, the academy is my local venue, the Electric is good for smaller gigs. Best area in London to watch bands (although I'm South London biased)- don't have to go central, direct train home and all the bars and food you need all in walking distance. Best night out in London is Brixton.

10 minutes ago, Zico said:

It feels like a different set of fees everytime i buy a ticket 

I'm sure there only ever used to be an admin fee 

I don't even know what the difference between a service and facility charge is  

But the service charge for NIN was £2.20 more than YYYs per ticket 

But proportionally less of the ticket price 

The other fees were the same 

So seems random

I'm not arsed as such, like i said, just round it all up and don't break it down  

The facility charge is set up by the venue - it goes directly to them not Ticketmaster.

So basically, most venues have an API which goes into a venue's ticketing system (if they have one) and takes out a set allocation (as some venues just go through TM so that TM give them more promotion, others a range of agents and therefore a ranges of APIs) It not a huge amount of set up, but because of the complexity of allocations nowadays venues will charge a fee as you need more people to manage this (even though an API is just a direct link)

Nowadays, you can't sell a bean to anything in major centres unless you are selling through third party agents as they have been data and - you the public- like to purchase digitally through them. 

So say, See tickets and TM want to sell the hot ticket they will say what data they have and what they will do to promote you if you give them exclusivity. Other times you split the allocation between a number of providers, and then sometimes a provider won't have an API set up and you need to manually allocate a set number of tickets, say 200; if they haven't sold but another agent has you have to then mark back these tickets to the venue and then onto another provider - which is why you'll see 'released tickets' for a show that looks sold out if you go directly to a venue.

So there you go, its a fucking headache and I wish it was a simple as putting up posters when I started 20 years ago. But it's not, and we all want paying, and it's all about data and the customer gets screwed but that's capitalism for you, if people want something, they'll pay, and my clients want a pound of that transaction thank you, so they can pay agencies like us to work with ticket agents like them.

 

Edited March 27, 20224 yr by Not in Crawley

Simple really 😐