The great concert ticket rip off! (ranty rant rant!)

[NadineBaggott]

Well! I'm gobsmacked.
Just looked on MEN Arena for the Strictly tour (yes, I know I'm sad but that isn't the point of my rant!).

Dearest tickets are £45 so not cheap - THEN they want £6.50 booking fee PER TICKET (this price goes up or down depending on the price of the ticket).

THEN they want £2 delivery EVEN IF YOU PICK THE TICKETS UP from the venue!!!

There ought to be a law against it!

£45 is the cost of putting on a big show like that.

£6.50 per ticket is the cost of running the box office, paying the staff and providing the other facilities.

I have to admit that having a delivery fee for collects is not on.

I've looked at that for the O2 for my dd and myself. Wouldn't get much change out of £60!! I haven't quite decided yet which probably means that I won't be going.

I really want to see Viva La Diva as well but that is beside the point .

No, the hire of the venue is simply that, use of the arena/hall space. Promoters have to pay a separate fee for hire of the box office facilities/staff. Some choose not to pay that and sell tickets themselves, others use an agency, most use a combination of agents and cevue box office.

So when a ticket is sold the box office keeps the booking fee, and the ticket price is passed on to the promoter.

Have you tried other ticket agencies? Might be worth a google or sometimes local papers do offers on big shows - coach there and back etc.

Well said, Nadine, I've got tickets for Strictly at hallam arena, and there's a £4 booking fee for each bloody ticket, what a complete swizz. It was the same for Rod Stewart last year at twickenham (but I looooove him so that wasn't quite as bad ). I can understand a one-off booking fee for the whole lot, well sort of, but for each ticket??? How much extra work is involved in putting a different number into the computer, fgs!!!

here's another

booked flight tickets today with Jet2 - it said £2 for credit card or £1 for debit card (!)

but wait, no

£2 per person, per journey so that's £8 for two on a return flight.

rip off.

going back to the Strictly thing - never mind venue costs, what are the stars earning? The judges are earning even more!

rip, rip, rip!

recently tried to buy tickets for neil young in concert, ticket master have bought the lot and are selling them at inflated prices, now that really is a rip off and apparently legal.