Apollo ticket sham

[Raised on prisoner's aid]

Maybe some people don't have the internet. Or a credit card.
Or maybe (like me) I fancied my chances of getting tickets at the venue rather than being up against the world on the phone and computer, which I did. (Just). I was up against tout scumbags though

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Did you get tickets then?

 

[viva pete]

Apart from 2 fans, the box office for the Apollo (at the Palace) sold all the tickets to the touts.

How do you know that only two tickets went to real fans and the rest to touts? seems very specific. if its true then that is truly disgusting.

 

[Brel]

How do you know that only two tickets went to real fans and the rest to touts? seems very specific. if its true then that is truly disgusting.

I didn't say 2 tickets. Apart from touts only 2 fans in the queue were served.

EDIT: 3 fans were served (so my wife just told me. I sent her to get them for me!)

 

[vivabob]

deprive others?i want to see moz,cant get a ticket,got one off ebay,how do i deprive anyone?

i think kewpie means by buying from a tout the demand is increased for the tickets so the touts buy more to meet the demand and limit the supply to people who actually want to see the show rather than sell the tickets on for profits.

if no one bought from touts the demand would be lessened and the people who actually want to attend the show will have a fair chance of getting tickets.

 

[Musley]

Don't talk to me about tickets!
I bought all my tickets, except one, for Morrissey's 2006 tour from touts or "specialist sites". My friend and I lost £185 to Advantage tickets for the Roundhouse Gig in January and I paid £150 for two Oasis tickets on e-bay.
Am I mad, probably! But it depends how much you are prepared to pay dependant on how much you want to go. My limit for the Oasis tickets was £100 each, I wouldn't have gone above that.

 

[viva pete]

I didn't say 2 tickets. Apart from touts only 2 fans in the queue were served.

EDIT: 3 fans were served (so my wife just told me. I sent her to get them for me!)

Even still that is really out of order, Three genuine fans is a joke. Thats just a tiny handful of tickets to those that really wanted them.

 

[Brel]

Even still that is really out of order, Three genuine fans is a joke. Thats just a tiny handful of tickets to those that really wanted them.

It's nothing new either. The same thing happened at the Lowry & the Bridgewater Hall a couple of years ago.

By chance I managed to grab 15 minutes at work to go on-line. I got a pair standing for the 22nd. I also had a surreal conversation with a woman I have worked with for donkeys years - she saw what I was up to and decided it was a good time to tell me that her husband knew Morrisseys Mum very well. Just as I was frantically filling in my credit card details! What a morning!

Later on, when the dust had settled I had a very interesting chat.

 

[Samiy]

I think the whole thing was rather dodgi, after going online i was saddened to discover that the entire lot of tickets where sold by 10:01 and left thinking what the f***. Went to college handed my coursework in and proceded to the pub to drown my sorrows. Returned home pissed as a fart to have recieved an email of my friend as to where a could get a ticket and coach travel. Which i ovbouisly booked fer the 23rd gig in manchester. But its just a bit suspisious a rec ow all these companies have sets and sets of tickets yet the ratio of that to genuine fans whom have tickets through ringing in and booking on the regular sites is far less. Made me av a right old grumble

 

[Unwitting Observer]

deprive others?i want to see moz,cant get a ticket,got one off ebay,how do i deprive anyone?

No, I understand. You have to do what you have to do to see him.

One piece of advice: wait until closer to the date. Keep checking back. More than likely the tickets won't be more expensive then, they'll be the same. And also, hopefully you can get one from the box office or somewheres for face value.

 

[Unwitting Observer]

it's nothing new either. The same thing happened at the lowry & the bridgewater hall a couple of years ago.

By chance i managed to grab 15 minutes at work to go on-line. I got a pair standing for the 22nd. I also had a surreal conversation with a woman i have worked with for donkeys years - she saw what i was up to and decided it was a good time to tell me that her husband knew morrisseys mum very well. Just as i was frantically filling in my credit card details! What a morning!

Later on, when the dust had settled i had a very interesting chat.

Let's hear about THAT CHAT!

 

[Samiy]

Im a total dunce!

WELL
After thinking i didnt have a ticket for the god the icon that is morrissey. I spent friday afternoon in the pub which went on to the early evening, which further meant i was literally incapacitated. Pathetic of me to get that drunk well typsy. To return home to find an email of a really nice friend of mine from manchester telling me of this site thats kosher as they come, where you pay for the gig ticket with the inclusive coach travel. At which point when i read this intoxticated i was literally jumping in the air. So i booked a coach from a point which at that point in time i thought was a good point. LANCASTER!

where the flying f*** is lancaster a thought this morning, as i currently live in newcastle to great disapointment i must add. Which means im going to have to get a train to leeds then one to lancaster which means going back on myself when i could have just got the huddersfield coach. GRRRRR

fingers crossed the company av ordered through will answer through to my kind but forthright demands of amending my ticket to huddersfield GRRR

damned morrissey bug

 

[yesitis]

Re: Im a total dunce!

or you could just do what i've done and ask them to mail you the ticket. unless you want to take the coach. could be kinda fun i guess, a bus full of moz fans.

 

[Samiy]

a thought to get the ticket you had to get the coach?

Wouldnt mind the coach part its just the fact when a google mapped it am literally going down to leeds to go back up north to lancaster.

am going to the gig on me todd so a dont mind new friendly faces

 

[yesitis]

i emailed them and asked if they could just send it to me as i don't really want to use the coach service and they said it wouldn't be a problem.

 

[viva pete]

It's nothing new either. The same thing happened at the Lowry & the Bridgewater Hall a couple of years ago.

By chance I managed to grab 15 minutes at work to go on-line. I got a pair standing for the 22nd. I also had a surreal conversation with a woman I have worked with for donkeys years - she saw what I was up to and decided it was a good time to tell me that her husband knew Morrisseys Mum very well. Just as I was frantically filling in my credit card details! What a morning!

Later on, when the dust had settled I had a very interesting chat.

i also managed to get three standing for the 22nd after first trying online only to be told they were sold out before i even got to the bottom of the form, fortunately i called ticketline and they had them. But i have to agree with others the whole thing stinks. However the chat about Morrisseys Mum sounds interesting.

 

[lottie]

It's nothing new either. The same thing happened at the Lowry & the Bridgewater Hall a couple of years ago.

By chance I managed to grab 15 minutes at work to go on-line. I got a pair standing for the 22nd. I also had a surreal conversation with a woman I have worked with for donkeys years - she saw what I was up to and decided it was a good time to tell me that her husband knew Morrisseys Mum very well. Just as I was frantically filling in my credit card details! What a morning!

Later on, when the dust had settled I had a very interesting chat.

can you get her to ask him to ask moz's mum for any spare tix?
(what? its worth a shot!)

 

[Brel]

can you get her to ask him to ask moz's mum for any spare tix?
(what? its worth a shot!)

Exactly! It was surreal. I was frantically trying to get tickets and she just walked up to me and casually says that! Later on we had a little chat. She explained how he knew her and for how long etc. The odd thing is I've known her for years and years, but she thought to mention it? Manchester is like that though. People here don't fuss.

 

[sistasheila]

Exactly! It was surreal. I was frantically trying to get tickets and she just walked up to me and casually says that! Later on we had a little chat. She explained how he knew her and for how long etc. The odd thing is I've known her for years and years, but she thought to mention it? Manchester is like that though. People here don't fuss.

she maybe just wanted to spare this gem for a special occasion..like this


feel free to tell more

 

[Brel]

she maybe just wanted to spare this gem for a special occasion..like this

She said it so casually though? I was swearing at the PC trying to read my credit card number and type it correctly. I just looked at her and thought to myslef "no, she's got that wrong?"

She's just very laid back. I often nod to her and her fella when I see them in the pub down the road. I'll be sitting for a little chat next time!

 

[Jukebox Jury]

How do you know that only two tickets went to real fans and the rest to touts? seems very specific. if its true then that is truly disgusting.

I didn't say 2 tickets. Apart from touts only 2 fans in the queue were served.

EDIT: 3 fans were served (so my wife just told me. I sent her to get them for me!)

There were four non touts who got tickets.
Legal Eagle was first in line, then the touts and then me, Hugh and Grim, the girl from Chile and then a women on her own.
Was this your wife Brel?

Hugh, then me and then Grim were sorted and then the Chile girl was told it was sold out

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