For Sale 2x V Fest Weekend tickets

Andreas Rex

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A friend has a pair of tickets to V Festival @ Weston Park for sale. They're for the full weekend with camping and she's asking £450 ONO.

Send me a PM if you're interested.
 

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Andreas Rex

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Haha! Well...it's an annual event, so that's to be expected!

I think the most I've paid for a festival is £185 for Glastonbury a few years ago, and that's before eating/drinking/having fun. I know you get to see some good bands, but when it's the equivalent of a good 2-week deal on a Greek island...really can't justify it anymore.
 

Rikki

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You can get the same tickets on stubhub for less than £140. From what Im told its very difficult to sell tickets for a profit or even breaking even these days due to the number of people who buy to try and sell on.
 

number9

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£200 (-5p) each is the standard price and still available.
I love it when someone buys hoping to make a profit and can't shift.
your friend is using you to tout these tickets and you'll get the flak. if she really wants to get rid because they can't go, they ought to be selling them at cost or under.

seems concerts, gigs, festivals are struggling to sell out as they used to. no surprise when they charge high prices. tho what a lot of these gigs do, is set an amount of tickets available initially, then claim its sold out in a record time, then surprisingly add more tickets nearer the time, and even give a 2 for the price of 1 cos they can't shift em. Robbie Williams* are you listening?

*I had to buy for wife.
 

Andreas Rex

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You can get the same tickets on stubhub for less than £140. From what Im told its very difficult to sell tickets for a profit or even breaking even these days due to the number of people who buy to try and sell on.

I did have a Google around and saw you could get tickets for around that. As they're not my tickets, it's not up to me! :)

£200 (-5p) each is the standard price and still available.
I love it when someone buys hoping to make a profit and can't shift.
your friend is using you to tout these tickets and you'll get the flak. if she really wants to get rid because they can't go, they ought to be selling them at cost or under.
Not the case at all. My friend posted on FB saying she had 2 tix to sell because she was no longer able to go. I offered to post them on here to help her to sell them. She paid, including booking fees etc, pretty much what she's asking.

If you look at the threads where I've posted V tickets for previous years, you'll see very similar comments to your own. But they've sold.
 

Trumpet

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Mrs T paid in excess of £1,200 for three Michael Buble tickets last year for her, daughter & son's girlfriend. Two nights in a hotel for all three of them cost less than one ticket. Only found out this week.
 

number9

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I did have a Google around and saw you could get tickets for around that. As they're not my tickets, it's not up to me! :)


Not the case at all. My friend posted on FB saying she had 2 tix to sell because she was no longer able to go. I offered to post them on here to help her to sell them. She paid, including booking fees etc, pretty much what she's asking.

If you look at the threads where I've posted V tickets for previous years, you'll see very similar comments to your own. But they've sold.

no one will buy tickets for more than they can buy from the official seller. £415.40 for 2 inclusive of all booking fees, transaction fee, signed delivery and even refund protection. that's the lot and you don't need all that, she won't have paid more unless she bought them with a Wonga loan.
you've been on this forum a long time so you are probably known by many here, yet its you advertising the price of £450. that's a rip off on fellow members of this forum that you chat too. proud? is your mate worth that? get them at cost price here and she'll get more respect.

stick em on ebay, they will sell for what they're worth and it'll cost about 15% of the sale price. times running out if she wants some money back.
you are touting these tickets for her, give her my advice if you want to help her, tho i'm sure she'll want to shove it somewhere while I tie my shoelaces.
i'm a believer in that tickets are for fans not touts.
 

db

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no one will buy tickets for more than they can buy from the official seller.

lol you carry on believing that..


my brother used to work for a very well known ticket company, so used to get first dibs on tickets to all the big name acts and give me the heads-up.. best i ever managed was £850 for 2 pearl jam tickets that cost me less than a ton..

stick that in your pipe and smoke it, hippy! :haw:

hope your mate sells her tickets, andreas :up:
 

number9

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no hippy db, but I am aware they're are fools out there who could pay.
what goes around comes around. one day you'll be wanting some one direction one last time tour tickets, and can't get em without paying over the odds ;)

I rarely do music now. can't be arsed having to book so far in advance for a ticket.

I hope she sells em, but not for profit.
 

db

#chaplife
no hippy db, but I am aware they're are fools out there who could pay.
what goes around comes around. one day you'll be wanting some one direction one last time tour tickets, and can't get em without paying over the odds ;)

I rarely do music now. can't be arsed having to book so far in advance for a ticket.

like your good self, i am long since past it.. last gig i went to (if you can call it that) was glastonbury in 2000, i think.. i wouldn't dream of paying ridiculous money for tickets, but like you say there are fools out there who will, so if there's money to be made have at it, i say! :rich:
 

Andreas Rex

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The course of events:

1) I see my friend's post on Facebook saying "Please someone buy my V tickets! 2 full weekend camping tickets....£450 ono"
2) I say to my friend "Would you like me to post these on Stafford Forum for you?"
3) She replies "Ooh, yes please!"
4) I ask "Is that what you paid for them?"
5) She replies "Pretty much"
6) I post them on here with all of the info I've been given

I stand to make no profit and am certainly not trying to pull the wool over anyone's eyes!

Should I assume that you won't be wanting them then, number9? :heyhey:
 

number9

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no sorry AR, I won't be wanting them. not even at stubhub prices. i'll listen out for the bass from here.

I'm more having a go at your friend. no.5 in your list is the fault. 'pretty much'
you've done your friend the favour of putting her advert up, she is doing you no favours by asking that amount for you to advertise on a forum you've used for so long when people can get them cheaper officially. you may not have know the full price, but you did see a cheaper price of 'around £140' (each).

if someone here that you knew wanted them. would you sell your friends at £450 or point them elsewhere knowing you can get cheaper from official outlets.

she could be lucky and get a buyer who doesn't know better, but this year, I think she'll be 'pretty much' taking a loss on these.
 

shoes

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lol you carry on believing that..


my brother used to work for a very well known ticket company, so used to get first dibs on tickets to all the big name acts and give me the heads-up.. best i ever managed was £850 for 2 pearl jam tickets that cost me less than a ton..

stick that in your pipe and smoke it, hippy! :haw:

hope your mate sells her tickets, andreas :up:


I too the mrs to see Pearl Jam last year. At £30 a ticket it seemed a lot, they were shit.
 
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Noah

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As of this morning Amazon were offering me the following prices for V Festival tickets -

£95 (face value £89, booking fee £6) for one day ticket to V Festival: Weston Park on Saturday 16th or Sunday 17th August
£175 (face value £165, booking fee £10) for one weekend non-camping ticket to V Festival: Weston Park
£195 (face value £189, booking fee £6) for one weekend camping ticket to V Festival: Weston Park

Why Amazon are offering me tickets to a music festival I have no idea, certainly won't be taking them up on the offer - if I wanted to listen to V I'd just open my back door.
 
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