Who should resell tickets?

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Two couples have tickets for a gig.

Couple A asked couple B if they wanted to come, couple B said yes, so couple A booked them, with Couple B transferring the money over for them straight away.

Couple B can no longer attend - nothing serious, a clash of dates with a family celebration.

They have since booked for a sporting event as a 4, again with couple A booking and paying. When informed of the amount to send across, couple B have said 'cool, if you ask someone else to gig I'll send over the difference between gig tickets and sporting event tickets'

It's left couple A feeling a bit pissed off - they now have 2 extra tickets for an event that they would have to get rid of in order to get the full amount of money back.
They think couple b should pay full amount of sporting event, and either sell, or swallow the cost of the gig tickets themselves.

AIBU - or are couple B??

Couple B. The sporting event is completely separate. They could ask couple A if they know anyone else who would be interested in the concert tickets, if not, they (couple B) need to take responsibility for selling and recouping their money.

I don't blame couple A for being pissed off. It's up to B to sell/ give/ bin tickets for event 1, and now pay A for tickets for event 2.

Cheeky fuckers!

Do you have physical tickets? I would be inclined to give them to couple B and say it’s up to them to sell them, in the meantime can they give you money for sporting event.

If they don’t cough up it’s the sporting event tickets I would sell.

It's B's problem!

We go to loads of gigs, sporting events, etc., with friends and sometimes clashes do pop up when tickets have to be bought many months in advance.

No one has ever made it the purchaser's problem, though.

Quite the opposite in fact - tickets are paid for regardless of attendance once agreed to buy and anyone who drops out just considers they may be lucky if someone else wants to buy their tickets from them.

B are CFers, to be honest.

Couple B. Next time make sure couple B pay and then use the trick on them, "We didn't find anyone else to come to the concert so we've deducted the price of the concert tickets plus what you owed us from the sporting event from what we're paying you."

If you don't mind losing a few quid, it would be hilarious if they still owed money to couple A even after the deductions were made.

I’d be interested in time frames a bit here. If B wanted A to resell, they should’ve immediately said “we can’t go, would you like to have a go at reselling tickets so you have other friends to go with, otherwise we’ll sell them but you might not know the buyers”

If you’ve lost a few weeks on the chance to resell to friends I’d be really pissed off. If it’s just over a day they might not have got their ducks in a row yet. Of course you always try to resell tickets, if you can’t then B pays but you must give it a good go.

I thought with places like ticket master you just sell them
back to them and it's the buyers who need to do that.

Couple B are very cheeky. No way should couple A be responsible for selling the tickets.

It depends what is meant by

'cool, if you ask someone else to gig I'll send over the difference between gig tickets and sporting event tickets'

This could mean either:

1. They see it as your job to find someone else to go, and sell the tickets for them.
2. They mean that if you know someone else wanting to go, then do that, otherwise, it remains their problem.

#1 is out of order, #2 is not. In fact, if the event is a massively in-demand one they probably think that by saying that you're welcome to pick another friend to get the chance of a ticket, they're doing the nice/right thing.

Didn't buy the tickets through ticket master; and hadn't paid for any insurance of the tickets so this didn't cross my mind.
However...I just called the venue and they will refund up to 3 weeks before performance - so thank you very much!

Still think B are swines though 😉🤣

I think both events should be paid in full. I think both couples could try to resell tickets, I would probably put the emphasis on the non attending couple to find replacements if they want any money back. But would that couple pay for the second event if the first tickets weren’t sold on?

Couple A need to stop buying for couple B . Personally I’d give couple B teh gig tickets ( transfer them) and let them take the hit and deal with the inconvenience .

That's so cheeky! Couple B should pay in full for the sporting event and either lose the cost of the music tickets or take responsibility for re-selling. If Couple A have friends that will buy B's tickets, great, but B should take responsibility if not.

Just to add, couple A are overly polite, people pleasing arseholes, and wouldn't have been able to accept money from another friendship couple, as they would feel like CF-ers taking money from effectively not their first choice of company.

Anyway, alls well that ends well - in case you missed if above, venue will buy back. I had just assumed they wouldn't.

Glad you got sorted with your refund.
I still think couple B are CFs!
And definitely would not sub tickets for them again.

Well if A WOULDN’T sell on the tickets because they don’t want others to feel like a second choice then that’s a completely different spin. A is the problem if they won’t resell 🤣🤣🤣.

problem is over if the venue are taking them back. But no, B shouldn’t be liable because A won’t sell on. That’s ridiculous!!!

Well, it still shouldn't be A's problem - they aren't the ones who can't go.

A would resell to strangers, but would feel like a CF to take money off of friends.

Either way - B can't go, they are B's tickets as they paid for them, B should sort and treat the other event as something entirely different, which it is. If the other event wasn't happening I highly doubt they'd expect A to give them the money back.

Woohoo!!!! I completely agree with you though. If that were us we'd ask A will the venue take them back and if not would they prefer to find someone they want to go with or are they happy for us to sell the tickets on. It can be such a tricky one because I know MIL would hate to go with someone she doesn't know, and in this instance couple A don't feel comfortable asking
Other friends so there's no one size fits all.

Couple B is responsible.

Couple A are correct.