Taskmaster rip off

That’s awful and I’d be absolutely livid. But what a really lovely daughter you have.

My 16 year old daughter naively decided she'd like to surprise us with Task master tickets, not realising that it wasn't the live show, and spent £280 of her hard earned money to buy the tickets. Like others on here, she got really excited and felt pressured to buy the tickets asap, as it was hyped up that you needed to get them quickly to avoid disappointment, and she was placed in a queue. When we realised what she'd bought, we emailed to try and get a refund but they have point blank refused, as she ticked the box agreeing to the terms and conditions (which she obviously didn't read, because she's 16!). We feel totally let down by Taskmaster. It's left a sour taste, that's for sure. We've got to try and resell them now, as we can't (and don't want) to go. 😡

Sorry if I’m being rude, but if you’d REALLY been wanting to go see a live taping with the comedians, you’d already know there is a separate website and signup for it. This was clearly something else. Im sorry it upset you to find out otherwise, but this experience was clearly listed as something else. No one to blame but yourself.

I’m not sure whatbrheb’lottert’ was about … deffo no savings offered for me

Hmmmm yes it sounds more and more like an escape room type thing. £100/4 people would be reasonable!

Anyway.

I did it as a corporate event at Christmas.

You can do as many rooms as you want, as a team, but there’s a set number of rooms - so if you do it “fairly”, everyone does two. It’s quite cramped and some of the rooms are a lot funner than others… but really it all hinges massively on who your host is. The more eccentric ones are better than the quieter ones, but you have to be able to gel with the person you get, too. One group for us got someone who liked to insult everyone a lot, which they didn’t like… ours was good, a bit “crazy” but a good host.

It all leads back round to a bar, so you can have a drink before you go. The final bit is quite dull for anyone who didn’t do well, it’s a loonnngggg time of waiting for the teams to all have a go in the dome, and then the counting process.

So disappointed. I don't think the lottery was clear at all and would not want to do within a group of 14 randoms. The cost is extortionate, the £50 tickets not available when taking into account travel time. With travel for 4 of us, just not financially viable and doesn't seem value for money. Happy to pay and travel for War of the World's or Gunpowder Plot experience, which are excellent!

Same, got sent the link for the ‘lottery’ and got excited then realised it was £100 a pop. Scammy bastards.

I have an email that says "we don't know if we'll have enough tickets for everyone"

They had people sign up before they even knew it was viable to see if the interest was there. They knew how many people had shown interest and how many people they could accommodate.

There probably was a good chance, at a reasonable price, they could sell out

I don't imagine it was because they were worried tickets would sell out, I expect it was to try and create a feeling of "scarcity" in an attempt to make people buy fast /be prepared to pay more.

But it was pretty naff and see through as a marketing tactic

I agree, I knew it wasn't a show but a live experience. And we like doing things like escape rooms and know they cost a fair amount but this seems very over priced

The ballot was clearly to get priority tickets because they were worried tickets might sell out

And all the emails I had seemed clear it was for a live experience, taking part in challenges against friends and family, not the live show.

It's now somewhat unclear exactly how it works in terms of being in the top 5....

And it did seem like you'd book as a family group and compete against each other. 14 is much bigger group than I expected

Whether it's a rip off or not will only become apparent once the event itself happens

I thought the same! Was going to organise as a surprise for DH but it’s too much money when you include travel etc.

it doesn’t look like tickets are going very fast though so I’m holding out for a possible reduce in prices

DD - massive fan - said the same. Nvm.
we saw the show being filmed last year (we were VIPs as Dh has a contact there).

You could get 60 minutes in a good escape room for a quarter of that price.

BTW I know someone who did the Crystal Maze experience. He said it wasn't actually as good as expected because you get to do two rooms each but the rest of the time you are just watching the others and cheering them on. Like in the show I guess, but not really very good value for money

I went for tickets on a weekend Nov and they were almost all £50pp, only peak Saturday lunchtime was £££ which I guess is to be expected as an uplift.

Yes. Same. Gutted

Hi Alex!!

Jokes- I think it’s very grubby. Calling it a ballot like it was some of draw for a great deal. It’s poor form.

Yes I agree with that . The marketing was terrible though and I think that is what has triggered the upset

Not sure how anyones been "ripped off" exactly. It's explained fairly clearly what it is and the prices are there for you to see. Yes, its expensive, but it's not like they've conned anyone.

The Wonka thing was a rip off, people bought tickets based on a bunch of fake AI images and lies, so didn't get the experience they reasonably expected.

Its fine to be disappointed that something you want to do is more expensive that you're willing to pay for it, but I just think calling it a rip-off is a bit rich when noones even experienced it yet.

You can buy the game from amazon for £8/£9 probably about the same experience.

I do think the marketing of the experience was bad however. It wasn't really clear what the live experience was - I actually thought it was in the actual TM house - I wasn't daft enough to think that Greg and Alex would be there, but I was expecting to have to go to Chiswick

I've bought two midweek tickets at £50pp but that's for my 40th birthday, so I felt it was about right to pay for an activity for 2 of us, but the £100 was utter greed.

Especially when it's groups of 14 people every 15 minutes—that's £5,600 an HOUR x 8 hours a day = £44,800 a day

Plus the minimum age is 9, and although I'm sure my eldest would enjoy it, I'm not sure he would enjoy competing against a load of random adults in the group of 14. So seems very unlikely DC would make it to the final 5 stage challenge.

To be fair to them, I've just checked again and there are lots of £50 tickets available in November and December. Still eye wateringly expensive for 65 minutes, but not £100pp as people are mentioning up thread.

So did I 😂

DH loves Taskmaster so I thought it would be a nice treat. £100 a pop can fuck right off.

I wonder how many people out of those who signed up “won” the ballot