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Post by Fat Reg on Apr 20, 2004 7:20:53 GMT -5
If anyone finds any places selling weekend tickets (preferable at non-rip-off prices) please let everyone know via this thread.
Cheers
Reg
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Post by Digsy on Apr 20, 2004 7:55:16 GMT -5
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Post by Fat Reg on Apr 20, 2004 7:58:55 GMT -5
Wow - did you actually pay that? It's outrageous. Sooner or later things will be so bad that everyone will have to pre-order before any line-up announcements. And then we'll have to accept any old shite on the bill. It'll be like 1988 all over again!
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Post by Digsy on Apr 20, 2004 8:02:28 GMT -5
nah, i was going to tho....seemed more reliable that ebay until i found that VAT wasnt included
capitalist pigs
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Post by ~ MAR ~ on Apr 20, 2004 9:56:45 GMT -5
That is obscene!!
I clicked one of the links on the other fatreg forum a few days ago for Reading tix...just being 'curious' and they were going for £170 I think plus postage etc.
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Post by Fat Reg on Apr 20, 2004 10:10:31 GMT -5
I think £165 is about the cheapest you can find them now... and they won't be getting any cheaper...
With any luck, I will have some for a competition later in the summer. Start saving for bribes!
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Post by ~ MAR ~ on Apr 20, 2004 10:15:20 GMT -5
I think £165 is about the cheapest you can find them now... and they won't be getting any cheaper... With any luck, I will have some for a competition later in the summer. Start saving for bribes! LMAO can't I just bribe you now so I can win them next year to save me buying any at all?  |
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Post by Fat Reg on Apr 20, 2004 10:17:21 GMT -5
Come on then Mar, where's your avatar - I want to see a custom one in action!
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Post by Royston of Royston Vasey on Apr 20, 2004 11:32:52 GMT -5
i have added a custom avatar.. looks ok i guess... ;D
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Post by ~ MAR ~ on Apr 20, 2004 11:44:57 GMT -5
Come on then Mar, where's your avatar - I want to see a custom one in action! I need to host it.... Edit: done!! Like? That's one I actually even made myself....I use that in the LPU.  *strokes av* |
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Post by jimmy the mother fuck on Apr 20, 2004 18:47:15 GMT -5
don't buy tickets from ebay/auction places. Every year that I've been freinds of mine have bought tickets at face value from the box office by the entrance. Last year one freind didn't arrive untill 9.30 pm on the friday and had no problems in getting one so don't panic buy now. If it comes to the worst the touts on the road leading up to the festival sell them for about £120. Expensive but still cheaper than the ebay bastards
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Post by Mike D on Apr 21, 2004 14:57:13 GMT -5
Oi!!  Im going to be one of those Ebay bastards, as you so nicely put it. I can assure you that im very reliable as an ebay seller. |
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Post by PT on Apr 21, 2004 15:15:47 GMT -5
ebay single tickets last time i checked with bout an hour remaining were goin for #180-#210 and a pair are between #340-#375!!!! well bugger me with a fish fork
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Post by Fat Reg on Apr 22, 2004 3:38:09 GMT -5
Been looking at these ticket agencies and a thought struck me: given that they all have a stock of tickets to flog at upwards of £175, we can only assume that they bought these tickets in bulk.
Now I don't think for one moment that they queued up at Mean Fiddler venues to buy them at face value, which means that they've bought them from the Mean Fiddler under some other arrangement. MF must know that they're being sold at 75% above face value, so, really, MF are complicit in the overpricing of tickets through these agencies (who are nothing other than legally-operating touts).
I know it's a case of supply and demand, but MF would appear to have supplied these "touts" directly and in bulk. And who's to say the deals don't involve a cut of the proceeds for MF?
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Post by Tom on Apr 22, 2004 6:56:27 GMT -5
ive been on the phone with meanfiddler quite a bit over the last few days in an attempt to find a weekend ticket and ive told them about how much tickets are going for on ebay and ive even supplied them with the phone number and web-site address of a company selling tickets for £200 and all the woman said to me was that although they discourage touting it isnt illegal and so theyre powerless to stop it
they also said the only way they can stop the touts is if they have the booking number of the particular ticket the tout has ordered. so basically theyre looking the other way and pretending its not there
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