Bunce Comments on Froch/Kessler Tickets.

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.

 

Loads of tickets on eBay http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_trksid=p5197.m570.l1313&_nkw=Froch+Kessler+&_sacat=0&_from=R40

 

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.

 

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 ****ing touts...

Those splits are totally random.. :good

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

 

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

 

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

 

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.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/watchdog/2011/10/ticket_prices.html

 

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...

 

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.

 

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!

 

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.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/20711496

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/feb/24/online-ticket-reselling-sleazy-capitalism

 

It happened for Hatton-Mayweather. Most of Hattons allocation, I forget the number, just went straight out to re-sellers and wound up those sort of fight/ hotel/ fight package deals.