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Other than Ticketmaster, where else can you buy concert tickets securely? |
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Other than Ticketmaster, where else can you buy concert tickets securely?
Just wondered? Is seetickets any good? Seatwave?
I'm trying to get hold of tickets for the Black Eyed Peas tour but want to know if there's a safe and legit site I can do it from as Ticketmaster have sold out their allocation |
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I've used Seetickets a lot and never had any problems with them - it's probably the main site I use for concert tickets.
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ticketline.co.uk are very good
Despite them saying it could be up to one week before the concert for them to deliver the tickets, I have always received mine within 2 weeks of booking, and I must've booked well over 30 sets of tickets with them! |
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See Tickets are reputable Seatwave are glorified touts.
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Ticketline aren't a legitimate company either as they're just another bunch of touts with a website too.
You have no come back with these sort of companies. |
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Try and get them from the box office of the venue, they may have better seats and the booking fee is usually less.
Saying that wont those tickets have sold out by now? Might be hard to get your hands on one |
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See Tickets are good
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Anyone know about live nation??
I ordered some gaga tickets off there and i'm hoping i haven't just lost ALOT of money ![]()
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Ticketline aren't a legitimate company either as they're just another bunch of touts with a website too.
You have no come back with these sort of companies. ![]() I also use Seetickets quite a lot. |
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They are fine. I don't know the structure but they are the same group as Ticketmaster.
I've never had any problems with Seetickets or ticketline either. I don't know which venue you are looking at but sometimes the venues keep the best tickets for themselves e.g. The Ticket Factory for Birmingham venues. |
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Ticketline aren't an official ticket outlet.
They're just resellers. |
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There are official ticket sellers like Ticketmaster, Seetickets and ticketweb
then there are Agents who sell on at massive fees - AND AVOID AT ALL COSTS and there are so called "fan to fan" sites but are in reality touts charters. There are Getmein, Viagogo and Seatwave. EBAY GOES INTO THIS CATEGORY TOO. |
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I recommend downloading Donal Mcintyre's Sunday podcast from last week. He looks at these companies and concludes that touts are ruining it for everybody.
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Ticketline aren't a legitimate company either as they're just another bunch of touts with a website too.
You have no come back with these sort of companies. |
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Ticketline aren't an official ticket outlet.
They're just resellers. http://www.ticketline.co.uk/info/about-us |
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Live Nation are okay as they basically use Ticketmaster's selling system. TicketSoup is really good for Scottish events, too.
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Ticketline aren't very good touts then if they sell tickets at the same price as the other 'legitimate' websites!
Ticket touts not making a profit, they are very good at their 'job'! |
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Thanks for all the info re live nation, i think this is a good informative thread
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Whatever you do avoid Double8. They are ticket touts. They refuse to send you them in the post and you have to meet them on the day of the concert!
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Other than ticketmaster you've got:
seetickets/wayahead/gigsandtours (different trading names but all the same firm) ticketline ticketweb stargreen wegottickets-they're usually good for smaller pub/club gigs livenation venue box offices all perfectly ok,tickets have always turned up in post in time for the gigs. If the gig you want is showing as sold out just keep checking periodically as returns and cancellations will go back on sale and a lot of the time extra tickets are released nearer to the date-this may be a few days before though,in these cases you have to collect them from the venue. |
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Try www.gigsandtours.com that is a really safe site
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I always use seetickets they're very reliable, and the last few times I've ordered tickets I've received them earlier than expected!
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Other than ticketmaster you've got:
seetickets/wayahead/gigsandtours (different trading names but all the same firm) ticketline ticketweb stargreen wegottickets-they're usually good for smaller pub/club gigs livenation venue box offices Whatever you do, don't buy from ebay, that just keeps the touts in business while real fans get locked out. |
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Anyone know about live nation??
I ordered some gaga tickets off there and i'm hoping i haven't just lost ALOT of money ![]() ![]()
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All the above suggestions are highly reputable OP. One word of warning though, Seetickets have the highest rape fees of all the sites listed above. Stargreen tend to work out the cheapest in my experience.
Whatever you do, don't buy from ebay, that just keeps the touts in business while real fans get locked out.
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