To think £148 is too much for a ticket

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I want to take my dc to a Littlemix concert in Glasgow in November on a Saturday and it seems that for 4 of us to go it's going to cost £700 with a processing fee of £108!!! Wtaf? Can someone tell me how to do it more cheaply?

That seems a lot! I am hoping to take mine to see them Gloucester and standing tickets are £38.50 each.

Have you tried directly with the venue?

watch it on tv? that's taking the piss really it is

Is that buying direct from the venue or through a 3rd party seller?

That seems really odd, we have 5 tickets for November in Leeds and we paid £160 for all five tickets. Are you going through are seller site? Have you tried ticketmaster or eventim?

Sorry that should have said re seller site.

Top price for standard seating through Ticketmaster is £51 each (if you can get them, I haven't checked availability).

The Glasgow gigs at the Hydro appear to have sold out - I was looking the other day from my daughter. In these scenarios your only option is the resale market, at many times the face value of the ticket.

Yes £148 is ridiculous, but the face value is probably less than a third of that.

In answer to your question YANBU - £148 is too much for any artist but most do not charge this amount through official sellers apart from the greedy bastards like Rolling Stones and such like.

Are you looking at Viagogo or Getmein? They are resale tout sites.

Try Scarletmist or twickets. They are resale face value sites.

Unfortunately to get them at retail you really needed to buy them on the day they went on sale :(
I think I paid around £190 for 4 tickets at the O2, which also included around £25 in fees for buying through O2 priority moments

Almost a grand to see the great wonder that is Little Mix?

Bonkers.

But that won't be the face value though. Someone will be selling them on.

I think you must be on a 3rd party site. Viagogo or getmein something like that. Seetickets is ok and I know they are selling them for 40ish quid there.

wait until closer to the date and all the people who bought hundreds of the fuckers will be selling them at face value on stub hub.

we've had tickets for things like Kylie and Girls aloud for less than Face Value.

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£700 to watch Little Mix grind about in their undercrackers?

Nah.

You'd have to pay me, to sit through that guff. That's way too much, even for a good band.

We had this with Bruno Mars. Tried to buy on release but theyd been scooped up by resale sites and were about £200 quid each. Ridiculous. I dont actually think the artists (lets use that word for now) have much ability to control the resale market. May be wrong but it seems to be out of their hands.

There was something about this kind of thing (secondary sales) on TV one evening this week.
Turns out that some artists/promoters are doing this themselves and upping the prices - in some cases the shows were not even sold out before they started putting them in resale site? (something like that, I wasn't really paying attention TV just on in background)

And for that money you could go somewhere not sold out get cheaper tickets and hotel for the weekend!

If you wait until about a week before the event, any tickets given to promoters/competitions that haven't been taken up are released for sale.

Dh used to work for secc and was tipped off to this by a former colleague who now works for a ticketing agency.

We got to see the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the Hydro for £88 each, brilliant seats, second row of first seated tier on 15th December, we kept an eye on Ticketmaster and booked them on the 10th as soon as they appeared.

Don't go then.
Kids need to learn that at times in their life they wont be able to do what they like at any cost

We got tickets for Glasgow, fab seats for £50 each. They have just announced a summer tour in Dundee or Edinburgh with tickets going on sale on Friday.

I would wait until nearer the time if using a resale site.

Woah! You would have to be a massive fan of Little Mix to contemplate paying that much to go and see them!