Am I being unreasonable? In the bundle to purchase tickets for a certain American Female Country/Pop star for her UK tour next year I was able to obtain two tickets but had the option to purchase four. Later my daughter told me her friend had screwed up their presale code and failed to get their two tickets. There were tears to say the least.
I was able to use my last two options and was able to get them two tickets but no money has changed hands. I have just told them we have bought extra tickets that they can have them at cost price. These tickets were £75 each and on the last closing night of the tour (which turns out to be "the night" to go). At the moment it isn't possible to hand the tickets over as the app has locked out the friends and family transfer option until the week of the concert to stamp out ticket touts. In addition to that this is already a sell out tour with resale tickets going for hundreds of £££s.
Since then the "leader" of my daughters friendship group has cut off my daughter and this has stopped the other friend we secured tickets for from communicating with my daughter. They are still talking but only if my daughter initiates the conversation and this is now very rare. We also can see from socials that the group have been going out over the holiday and leaving daughter out of it. From what I can see it all stems from my daughter sitting with the wrong person at a screening at the cinema (which has left me puzzled and feeling the whole thing is daft).
I know the friend who wanted the tickets was in tears when they failed to get their own, but I am so furious about the situation. I am thinking we should just use the extra tickets we bought for ourselves as each night of the tour is a unique experience and our tickets are in June so light nights and the others are in August so darker nights. The dark night shows will have a more spectacular light show and fireworks. Also our tickets were expensive and seated near the front and the second set were cheaper and high up in the stadium, so the different views will also be a different experience.
I think I know the best policy is to just sit on them and see what the situation is next year but I am interested to see what other people think.
Should I take the moral high ground and hand the tickets over once the app allows and once they paid for them as agreed or say no way, you broke my daughter heart by ignoring her over the holiday period so if they want tickets they can go and buy them from a ticket tout for 5 times the face value.
I would never dream of selling them to anyone else as we are massive fans so two trips to the same gig would be massive for us - a real once in lifetime experience. We also had our tickets for a Hyde Park gig cancelled because of Covid in 2020 so this trip is massive for us as long time fans and we are so happy to have tickets for even one show.
Obviously if this all blows over the situation changes so I am only looking at this from the perspective that their friendship is really at an end.