Ticket touts.

[First]

I saw this on BBC3's The Hustle , 2 blokes buying white goods that they never saw, hustler ropes them in by telling that he is the manager of a store that has a load of product shipped to them in error and he wants to make a quick killing on. He brings them to a shop while he wears a mock up of the staff ID. Takes thier money enters the shop and exits throgh the back door. Some peoplea are just stupid and there will always be a market as long as they are out there.

[joeSoap]

There was a gang selling laptops in Dublin a few years ago. You would be shown a demo model, told to walk up to a car 400m away, hand over X amount and be handed the laptop. Turns out that all they were were 4 litres of milk in a €9.99 cheap laptop case drom aldi.

[gilberto_eire]

Heard about a guy in Limerick who saw a X-Box 360 going on E Bay for about 300euro at the time of the X Box's release. Basically he logged on, thought he'd chance his arm by throwing in X-Box 360, saw one being advertised, photo of the box included, saw it was 300 with a minute to spare and bought it. It arrived a week later and being very excited he ripped open the box to find nothing inside. He complained on E Bay about it, but when the site checked out the claim they found that the ad never said that they were selling the computer, they had worded the ad so that legally they got away with sending what was in their pic, and he was so frantic in buying the thing that he never read the ad properly, so there was nothing E Bay or your man could do about it

Had to laugh when I heard about it though

say there was sweat coming out of the fellas head with the bid below the €300, praying someone would out-bid him for it(having read the print AFTER bidding)

There was a gang selling laptops in Dublin a few years ago. You would be shown a demo model, told to walk up to a car 400m away, hand over X amount and be handed the laptop. Turns out that all they were were 4 litres of milk in a €9.99 cheap laptop case drom aldi.

thats not a new one and if you fall for the your just plain stupid!. they show ya the real one then give you another case.... what kind of thick fool wouldnt check there case first, would the scumbags appearance not make you concerned?

its like the phone calls saying ''you've won a prize and can we have your details'' or to a lesser extent not covering your pin at a pass machine, i see loads of ppl dont even bother, is it that much hassle that ppl would risk 100's of euro not to put there hand over??.

while theres stupidity around these scams will still go, ppl are CONSTANTLY told about them but ppl still fall for it!!.

[DaveyCakes]

ticket master are now serching ebay for tickets to any of there events if they find some one over charging or selling 5 or 6 tickets they try to buy it find out who owns it or they just get the serial number from the pic and they cancell the tickets

ive no problemm with some one listing a ticket starting at 0 and if it goes above the cover price then thats ok but the one like your man that list them at 700 quid

selling a ps3 for a grand is ok if some one is that mad to get one they cant wait 2 months then fair play ,i heard one went on ebay on jap release day and sold for 15 grand sterling !!!!

Why is selling a ps3 above face value ok, but a not a ticket? Can you give me a list of everything that is and isn't ok to make money on?

[kdjaC]

There was a gang selling laptops in Dublin a few years ago. You would be shown a demo model, told to walk up to a car 400m away, hand over X amount and be handed the laptop. Turns out that all they were were 4 litres of milk in a €9.99 cheap laptop case drom aldi.

I was outside aldi waiting on a taxi when they came and offered me a D610 dell for €300, being bored and waiting on a taxi i thought i would have some fun.

I took the laptop off him he was sitting in the car ready to speed off, checked the tag so knew what it was, took out €100 whilst holding the laptop offered him that and no more, he asked to put the laptop in the bag i said ti was fine i had my own at home

Him and his mate conferred and said 100 wasnt enough


kdjac

[Blue-Army]

Heard about a guy in Limerick who saw a X-Box 360 going on E Bay for about 300euro at the time of the X Box's release. Basically he logged on, thought he'd chance his arm by throwing in X-Box 360, saw one being advertised, photo of the box included, saw it was 300 with a minute to spare and bought it. It arrived a week later and being very excited he ripped open the box to find nothing inside. He complained on E Bay about it, but when the site checked out the claim they found that the ad never said that they were selling the computer, they had worded the ad so that legally they got away with sending what was in their pic, and he was so frantic in buying the thing that he never read the ad properly, so there was nothing E Bay or your man could do about it

Had to laugh when I heard about it though

Yeah I heard a story like that before.

Someone thought they were buying an x-box. A week later a cardbord box arrived in the post with the letter 'X' on it.

[anto1208]

Why is selling a ps3 above face value ok, but a not a ticket? Can you give me a list of everything that is and isn't ok to make money on?

The difference in my eyes is that tickets would be for a sold out event without any chance of buying an other ticket where as with the PS3 you could wait and buy it in the shop or get one shipped from japan( pre release ).

You dont have to pay it but if you want to you can it would be like buying a ticket for 200 when its available from ticketmaster for 100

[DeLorean]

Are the likes of Seatwave (operated by Ticketmaster) any better than your 'despicable' ticket touts outside of Croke Park? How are these kind of companies even legal?

[BonnieShels]

No idea how they get away with it and do it like it's some sort of favour. The fees are absolutely astronomical as weel. I mean they are fees that they charge to ensure that the tickets are legit. Legit tickets that they issued and can cancel and then reissue for something like 30% of the asking price. Never mind the as$hat fees they took at the beginning as TicketBa$tard.

[DeLorean]

There was an economist on Newstalk this morning kind of sticking up for the touts and these kind of websites, saying they're pretty much a necessary part of the whole process. Not sure what his exact logic was as I only caught the end.