Gripe of the day - What is yours?

[yokohama]

Originally Posted by maviczap

Greedy Tour promoters & Stubhub users fleecing fans for 6 times the face value of the ticket

and while we're on that, the 'booking fee', which seems standard on most tickets now but usually adds 10 or 15% to the price

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by yokohama

and while we're on that, the 'booking fee', which seems standard on most tickets now but usually adds 10 or 15% to the price

That seems to have disappeared into the face value of the ticket.

Springsteen

£125 for seated tickets at Ricoh

£93 GA at Wembley

£83 GA at Etihad

Previously £67 at Eithad

Stubhub seats near the stage at Wembley, £650 feck off. GA £146 at the mo

Stubhub didn't exist on the last tour, you could only buy from Ticketbsatard or Livenation. Wembley GA was sold out within 30 - 45mins yesterday, and tickets were already for sale on Stubcnut.

I hope they still have their unsold tickets or another date is added for Wembley

[yokohama]

Not for the ones I bought yesterday, admittedly not so big names at smaller venues but Laura Cantrell at Leeds Brudenell is £17.50 face value; £20 with booking fee.
3 tickets in 1 transaction for a booking fee of £7.50 is a complete rip off. The tickets aren't even being posted, I'm collecting them.
I think I wouldn't feel as fleeced if the face value incorporated the 'fee' and was a little higher. it's the in your face exploitation that annoys me more than anything.

[maviczap]

Yep agreed

[Sir Trev]

Originally Posted by maviczap

Yep agreed

Even worse when you walk up to the ticket desk in your local theatre and find they add a booking fee on top of the face price. What the feck for?


My actual gripe for today is my current client's IT department. The company was bought out by a large well known drugs company last year and we're now being migrated to their servers and services. Despite telling us emails to our legacy addreses would be unaffected the alerts for my timesheet approvals stopped going to my line manager. Without approval I don't get paid. They're approved now but will be Thursday before the held up dosh arrives in my account. Grumble grumble.

[maviczap]

Originally Posted by Sir Trev

Even worse when you walk up to the ticket desk in your local theatre and find they add a booking fee on top of the face price. What the feck for?


My actual gripe for today is my current client's IT department. The company was bought out by a large well known drugs company last year and we're now being migrated to their servers and services. Despite telling us emails to our legacy addreses would be unaffected the alerts for my timesheet approvals stopped going to my line manager. Without approval I don't get paid. They're approved now but will be Thursday before the held up dosh arrives in my account. Grumble grumble.

That's taking the phish on both accounts

[Sir Trev]

Spookily enough the trailer for Radio 4s Moneybox on the breakfast news this morning mentioned booking fees even for cash sale walk-ins. Seems theatres/venues justify it with box office and printing costs. Should be in the ticket price if you ask me.

[phi-dan]

The local theatre here charges a booking fee, credit card fee, and a "theatre development" fee. Apparently the profit margin isn't enough

[maviczap]

Exploding electric sander, scared the bejesus out of me.

Was bloomin lucky as metal part of it came out the opposite side away from me.

[Geodude]

To the powers that be. Please can i have a stress break as ive surely had plenty now


Mav stop sanding those push iron calluses with electric tools, glad you're okay though