Bunce Comments on Froch/Kessler Tickets.

[p.Townend]

Im sure a certain amount went to touts but plenty of people on here got them as well. I don't think you can ever stop touts buying them.

[Mike Hunt]

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[JonnyBGoode]

I think more tickets than people imagine probably went to touts, any main venue with a guaranteed sell out event always attracts their attention and I bet there'll be a lot of them outside too. It would be nice if matchroom recalled or cancelled the tickets being resold online as theyre clearly for profit purposes and haven't been bought by fans. Don't expect it to happen but it's unfair that fans get ripped off for tickets because some unscrupulous people want to buy them all up and then fix their resale value.

[macho_grande]

I still don't understand how these touts wind up with so many tickets.

I can't imagine Matchroom sit down and go...

10% to family and friends of both fighters
20% for Saureland
20% for sponsors
30% for the fans
20% for no good leaching filthy cunting touts...

Those splits are totally random..

[Donnyb]

Originally Posted by macho_grande

How?

I was online at 11:50, got through virtual waiting room by 12:15, all £150 tickets were sold out by then & it would only let me buy single tickets after that.

What are the touts doing that I'm not?

I missed out on the tickets through the day, but I went back on about 9/10ish and grabbed 2 £80 seats..

I think people open up multiple pages and keep searching until they land tickets. I even managed to turn down a £60 ticket because I wanted 2 together.

[Black_Rainbows]

Originally Posted by dftaylor

I'm not saying St Eddie engages in this practise, but it's very common for event organisers to hand over a percentage of tickets to secondary re-sellers and then both benefit from the mark-up.

Quite often they get included in rip-off bundles for hotels, etc.

Also, tout companies can have a few people phoning up with lots of different credit cards to use.

[CamelCase]

No way did most of the tickets go to fans, corporates probably got a fair few then many to touts.

Tickets didn't sell anywhere nearly as quick for the Bute fight and the tickets were much cheaper, it was also in Carls hometown meaning more people would want to go.

[True_Hero]

If the authorities wanted to stop ticket touting they could, simply by bringing in a system where the tickets have the purchasers name printed on them and I.D has to be shown alongside the ticket when entering the arena.

You don't have I.D that matches your ticket, you don't get in. Will stop the greedy leeching, filthy touts ripping people off


Of course, if they do this already and I just haven't realised then ignore my post :P

[icemax]

Originally Posted by micky

Flicking between channels last night from Sky to Bn and back and just caught Bunce talking about the Froch/Kessler fight. I thought that was a good thing to hear bigging up another channels fight but then he went on to say about the tickets and said he had heard about 17000 tickets going in 20 minutes but said something about it would appear a lot of those have gone to "touts" is this rubbish or common knowledge, Surely if they are on sale at 02 they must be experienced enough to block these kind of people, in this day and age its not hard to know where the requests come from etc.

I just wondered if there was any truth in it, I assume he thinks there is as its a very iffy thing to say really considering the animosity between both Hearn and ******.

It happens with all big events....Promotional companies try to stop it but the touts have very sophisticated systems in operation.

[dayoandy]

I thought some of the online sites that resell tickets were actually run by ticketmaster etc? I am sure there was a concert recently where a large portion of the tickets went directly onto one of their 'resale' sites to maximise the money they make.

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[scfcham]

Originally Posted by True_Hero

If the authorities wanted to stop ticket touting they could, simply by bringing in a system where the tickets have the purchasers name printed on them and I.D has to be shown alongside the ticket when entering the arena.

You don't have I.D that matches your ticket, you don't get in. Will stop the greedy leeching, filthy touts ripping people off


Of course, if they do this already and I just haven't realised then ignore my post :P

They do already have a similar system for certain events but not very often. I've been to concerts where you have to present the debit card you bought the tickets on at the door. This was at a sold-out manchester arena and it was a relatively smooth process and should be standard policy for all events like this... Unless of course the powers that be are holding back this system on purpose...

[robbie_s]

In my experience, Promoters set aside reasonably large chunks of tickets for organisations that resale tickets.

The tickets are hugely marked up, the promoter makes 3/4 times the origional price and the resale site gets booking fee and maybe a small percentage.

Absolute scam.

[JonnyBGoode]

It would be very very interesting to see if someone could offer some hard evidence that this is what has happened in the case of this event. I'm one of those that missed out and I'm not paying some silly money prices to touts or resale agents as a matter of principle, the money doesn't even bother me I just fundamentally disagree with the practise.

Would not be happy to hear "Newage Eddie" had gone a little too new age and lumped a load of tickets off to some resale sites so we can all get our pants pulled down on ticket costs. I doubt he has done this but if he has it should be clarified!

[Check my hook]

I know a bloke who bought tickets on eBay for Beyonce at the Nottingham arena, think he paid £200 for two tickets, got to the arena, they'd seen the tickets on eBay and because he'd paid above face value refused to let him in, but said there are tickets available still so he ended up paying another £120 for tickets on the night!

[HOF]

Originally Posted by icemax

It happens with all big events....Promotional companies try to stop it but the touts have very sophisticated systems in operation.

Exactly. It's come on from the old days and the touts are paying computer nerds to develop these botnet things that attack the ticket selling sytem as soon as the event goes on sale. So those stages where you have to type in the letters as a security measure are now redundant as these c*nts have got computer programmes doing all this stuff on speed dial for them. Mind you they are no better than people like Ticketmaster who actually own Get Me In. There's a problem when the ticket sellers are actually touts themselves as well.

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