Online ticketing fees

[mcfc_ms]

How do these companies get away with those added charges? It’s ridiculous

Bought some tickets to see Stephen Merchant last night from livenation.co.uk (part of Ticketmaster from the looks of it). Face value of ticket is £25, and then they add an admin fee of £3.50 on each ticket.

Then I go and pay for them and they charge £3.25 for delivery (which is royal mail standard which should cost no more than about 60p). Or they give you the option to print out your own tickets for......... £3.25? How the bloody hell can they charge you for printing out your own tickets?

So, I opted for the posting of the tickets, then in the small print they say this postage option is not guaranteed for you to get your tickets, and if they get lost in the post, then you will not be able to get them reissued. Fuck off; I have just paid £3.25 for that delivery, which is the minimum I would expect.

Then they offer an 'insurance' policy which you can take out for an additional £3.99 per ticket to guarantee that you will get a refund if you can’t attend or don’t receive them in the post.

So in total these 'added charges' have cost me £10 extra for two tickets.

Robbing twats

 

[mancmackem]

It is a joke, and will only get worse. The charge for you printing your own tickets is a disgrace. If they sell 2 tickets, that's the poor sod on minimum wage doing the tickets sorted for an hour of work.

I knew someone who worked for Ticketmaster in town. They put a big gig on sale one day a few years back, can't remember which one but at 9:05am they had 1200 calls in the queue on the call board. Fuck doing that, disheartening viewing!

 

[MCFCTrick]

While you pay for them, they will keep charging you.....best option is go and buy them direct if you can.

Academies sell at the box office in the SU building (Where Acad's 2&3 are)
Apollo tickets can be bought from the Palace theatre box office. No booking fees at all.....

 

[peoffrey]

I'm often able to print my own ticket for £1.25 or something. It's got a unique barcode on it. That's the way forwards. Never going to forget £10 on two Klaxons tickets one year. They were delivered by someone on a push bike.