Ticket etiquette??

£10 off a £60 ticket isn’t much of a discount unless the event was sold out and you knew your friends wanted to go but weren’t able to source a ticket at the time. It’s also very short notice if the event is is next few days and it’s not even like you’re offering a pair so the ticket comes with a caveat that they have to go with you. You should have offered it at a minimum of half price or, if you want the company, for free. Your friends reaction was reasonable.

I don’t get it, you’ve spent the money whether or not your husband goes. So to me, it looks like you’re now trying to profit from your husband being unable to make it. I wouldn’t have commented in the group but I would have judged you privately.

I agree. She might be saying that no one is going to want to spend the night sat next to someone who might have Covid from their husband.

I think I would’ve just asked “anyone fancy coming along to X? DH is ill so can’t make it”, with no expectation of money. BUT if I was someone taking up the offer I would offer to pay for the ticket.
If I really wanted the money back I would probably try to sell the ticket on social media and then go alone.
Think it also depends on the event though - what is it?

I'd have asked people close to me if they wanted to come & let them have the ticket for free

So you want someone to pay £50 to keep you company at an event they weren't going to, and that you wouldn't have asked them to, if your DH could go? I agree with your friend you're taking the piss.

Especially as you offered it for sale to anyone. Is it an event they would have chosen to go to?

The money is spent you can't get it back and you can't expect someone else to pay it for you. You either go alone and lose the £60 ticket money or you offer it free to a friend and lose the £60 ticket money.

Best case scenario is said friend offers you something for it or buys you a drink. In future insure your tickets if it matters so much.

You’re looking for someone to keep you company at short notice. It’s really off to not just give the ticket away. It would be a kind gesture that hopefully cheered someone up and spread good karma. Instead you’ve shown yourself to be mean. Taking £10 off actually makes it more offensive.

It’s not wrong to clearly make people an offer but obviously people might just not want to go that much (or they would have booked tickets themselves). I normally would either sell it on a group (if allowed), contact the seller and ask for it to be resold, or I’d offer it to friends and family for free.

No. She's seen if someone else would like to go

What a weird take

I would have offered the ticket without mentioning money, if I was accepting the ticket in these circumstances I would have offered to pay for it but selling it is where you went wrong

YABU and a massive cheapskate.

The money is spent, it's lost. Your spent it for your DH to have a nice time and he's ill, so that's money gone. Your choices now are to go on your own or to use DH's ticket to invite a friend.

If you were trying to sell both tickets at a reduced price, that's fair enough. People could buy the tickets for their own nights out at a discount becaue it's last minute.

But trying "who wants to pay me to be my plus one at the last minute"... you're having a laugh. Unless it's the last ticket to the second coming, I doubt anyone one's interested in just a tenner off a £60 ticket.

I would have offered the ticket for free

you could try one of the ticket resale sites, depending how far off the event is.

I think it's fair enough to see if anyone wants to buy it - if not, go alone and look out for people wanting to buy a ticket. Happens all the time at sports matches, why not for a play or a concert too.

Don’t think you’ve done anything wrong. If they wanted a bigger discount, they could have asked.

The only other explanation that I can think off is that by saying, no way, they meant that ‘no way would they want to see The Chucckke Brothers’ (or whoever, ) live.

Or she might mean "you must be joking, why would I want to pay £50 to sit with you all evening catching Covid"

I’ve had this lots where I’ve had a ticket and have given it away for free. However I wouldn’t anymore. It pisses me off as I’ve never been offered a free ticket . A lot of people I know offer and then say the price and expect money for it - so I prefer to waste the tickets now and go alone / with a spare seat!

"e-ticket etiquette"

Impossible to say this out loud without laughing 😂

Would you honestly rather go alone than give it away?

I get it's a lot of money to "lose" but at most I'd have said half price.unless it was someone incredibly popular/ hard to get ie Taylor Swift or Oasis Vs a small band no one's ever heard of like The Corn Crickets

Depends what the ticket is for. If someone offered me a free ticket to an evening with Jim Davidson I'd send back a laughing emoji and say "you must be joking".

If someone offered me a 15% off a ticket she couldn't even use now but it was to a concert I wanted to go to I'd go but think you were tight.

😂

How much was the original ticket? Is it a very sought after sold-out ticket that your friends would be excited to get at the last minute?

A last minute ticket to Taylor Swift will be snapped up by a delighted friend.
A last minute reduced price ticket to a local band would make me internally roll my eyes, I'd give that away to free if a friend was willing to accompany me.

Since I doubt there's a paper copy, it has to be e-ticket etiquette.

If you are selling both tickets at face value or slightly cheaper for a sold out gig then that’s fine.

Selling one ticket to keep you company and the day before it’s a bit tight. I would have given the ticket away for free and in return a friend would normally buy me a drink / snack etc as a token of appreciation.

For a £60 ticket I don't think £10 discount is enough to make someone who wasn't already keen say 'oh, go on then'. I'd have offered it half price at least, if not for free.

It depends really whether you're trying to recoup the money or have company for the event. You're unlikely to achieve both.