AIBU?
To be sure that surely there aren't THIS many people who are THIS thick?!
MarmaladeTwatkins · 18/04/2013 12:19
Am quite angry and sad about this...
DH and I really want to go to the Bowie exhibition at the V&A, sometime in August. Checked at the start of last week and a few dates had sold out but still lots of dates showing as available. Am quite skint this month so thought I'd wait until this week when I got some more money to buy the tickets. They have all sold out, every day. Fair enough, it's a popular exhibition, you snooze you lose etc.
Just thought I'd have a quick look on Fleabay to see if any were going but wasn't hopeful... well, there are LOADS going, for ridiculous amounts. Having read a lot of the descriptions, there are loads of sellers going "genuine reason for sale, bought tickets for wrong day/wrong type of ticket bought" 
Bollocks. You all saw a quick way to make cash so you bought tickets to sell. Bastards. They are going for hundreds of pounds. I've got no chance of going now. I wouldn't mind so much if I'd lost out to genuine people going but I can't get a ticket because people are touting.
I do have a grudge against ticket touts in general so maybe I am BU...
AuntieStella · 18/04/2013 12:31
Well, for £64 you can buy an annual membership that gives you unlimited access to all exhibitions, and you can jump the queue. For a further £15 you can take a guest in with you.
If more people realised this, it would severely limit what the touts could attempt to charge.
UnChartered · 18/04/2013 12:34
it's not about people being 'thick', it's about grabby fuckers who want to make money
it's the same with loads of big names, tried to get AC/DC tickets for DSs birthday, sold out within 10 mins from official agents etc, on ebay within the hour...
robbing bastards
BreconBeBuggered · 18/04/2013 12:55
I wouldn't buy from these shits even if I had hundreds of pounds to hand over without noticing the difference. AIBU to hope they're out of pocket because nobody is willing to buy from them? Anyway, hope you can get some tickets from a genuine source, Marmalade.
quoteunquote · 18/04/2013 14:03
If people are prepared to pay that much for the tickets, that's what the organizers should be selling them for.
Maybe the organisations should when they first put the tickets on sale start them at a very high price, then each day drop the price by a pound that way, the organisations would benefit from the profit from people who are prepared to pay a higher rate, then people could decide at what price they want to opt in at.
If the membership scheme was linked with other museums and galleries around the country then everyone in the UK could benefit from it.
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