So they're selling the rubbish seats first huh?

lefty
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Yeah there's bunches of tickets, like 20 together for crazy high prices. Making a bit of profit fair enough but 5 times the ticket price is not right.
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Guys, chill. Wait until the week of the event and you'll pick up tickets for face value or below.
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ste1983 wrote:
jamielaststand2011 wrote:Managed to get 6 tickets in block 143. But took the whole office hitting the site to do it. Looks like the touts hit this in force though.
or Matchroom put a load of tickets on the thrid party site to start with like a suspect
He had said on twitter earlier on that he expected 60,000 to go today so i suspect you might be on the right track
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I wasn't gonna go anyway but I just don't understand how this is constantly allowed to happen. Complete joke.
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Sklar wrote:Guys, chill. Wait until the week of the event and you'll pick up tickets for face value or below.
You couldn't last time. Follow the Matchroom boys on Twitter for a better chance.
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SteveDow wrote:I wasn't gonna go anyway but I just don't understand how this is constantly allowed to happen. Complete joke.
It is a joke and although i wasn't going to be attending anyway, it does make me want to go and buy tickets for things i don't want to see to flog them myself
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mickey1975 wrote:
Sklar wrote:Guys, chill. Wait until the week of the event and you'll pick up tickets for face value or below.
You couldn't last time. Follow the Matchroom boys on Twitter for a better chance.
You got yours Mick?
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:witzend: :witzend: :witzend: :witzend:
fcuking site crashed ,then lost place now in the Q :x
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Yeah, sounds like the touts might have gone a bit overboard on this one. Hopefully they will have tickets left over and will have to sell at face value or lower later.

It also seems like there was a lot of tickets reserved for club wembley, those could be released for general sale later.
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CiganoBoxer wrote::witzend: :witzend: :witzend: :witzend:
fcuking site crashed ,then lost place now in the Q :x
On the time of asking mate, i got through, put my card details in and the fornicator crashed!
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You all are like Bieliebers!

There'll be spares. Wembley is huge and the touts will become more realistic when the fanatics have blown their wads in panic. The advice to buy from fighters on the card is sound, though.
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SteveDow wrote:I wasn't gonna go anyway but I just don't understand how this is constantly allowed to happen. Complete joke.
You mean the touts? It would be great to avoid it, but to be honest I cant think of any effective way to do it.
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mickey1975 wrote:
Sklar wrote:Guys, chill. Wait until the week of the event and you'll pick up tickets for face value or below.
You couldn't last time. Follow the Matchroom boys on Twitter for a better chance.
How could you stop it? Many have tried, and failed. The favourite is paperless ticketing, where you produce your id and credit card used in booking and they admit your party. Seat wave and Viagogo simply arrange a meeting place near the venue and give you the buyers phone number and you walk in together. You could be paid a grand to go watch, or leave if you don't like it. Another effort was to send a barcode to your mobile phone, hundreds of crap payg phones with the barcode on popped up on eBay!
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columbo wrote:
mickey1975 wrote:
Sklar wrote:Guys, chill. Wait until the week of the event and you'll pick up tickets for face value or below.
You couldn't last time. Follow the Matchroom boys on Twitter for a better chance.
You got yours Mick?
Yes.
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After spending 30 minutes of clicking, and getting told they are unavailable. I've given up. I'll check peroidically to see if I can get them.

Touts can get bent
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CiganoBoxer wrote::witzend: :witzend: :witzend: :witzend:
fcuking site crashed ,then lost place now in the Q :x
Well I'm still in the site, and there's no tickets available. Some say sold out, some say not available. I guess that not available means people are trying to buy them now and are just paying. Or they're holding them back?
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Just relax. Annoying yes. But how can matchroom solve what the wider entertainment industry can't. Let's remember eddie is small time when it comes to this.

Plenty of pairs of tickets will become available for face value and below if you are willing to wait it out until the day of the the fight.

For me this is great. We will see a record crowd. And we will get a fascinating fight.
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clopixolacuphase wrote:
CiganoBoxer wrote::witzend: :witzend: :witzend: :witzend:
fcuking site crashed ,then lost place now in the Q :x
Well I'm still in the site, and there's no tickets available. Some say sold out, some say not available. I guess that not available means people are trying to buy them now and are just paying. Or they're holding them back?
More than likely holding them back. Nothing generates a buzz round a buzzing fight like lots of people buzzing about not being able to get tickets
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clopixolacuphase wrote:
CiganoBoxer wrote::witzend: :witzend: :witzend: :witzend:
fcuking site crashed ,then lost place now in the Q :x
Well I'm still in the site, and there's no tickets available. Some say sold out, some say not available. I guess that not available means people are trying to buy them now and are just paying. Or they're holding them back?
I'm trying for four...but there's never an option to buy four!
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They're talking about getting permission from the transport of London to increase the capacity. What will the view be like for the people that get those tickets if they do?
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Sky Sports News say 60k tickets sold...
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Cherrybomb wrote:
SteveDow wrote:I wasn't gonna go anyway but I just don't understand how this is constantly allowed to happen. Complete joke.
You mean the touts? It would be great to avoid it, but to be honest I cant think of any effective way to do it.
But it just seems like huge amounts of tickets are getting into the hands of these arseholes before they actually go on sale to the general public and the only way that can happen is if authorised by the promotor or the venue.
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i need 6 :bag:
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SteveDow wrote:
Cherrybomb wrote:
SteveDow wrote:I wasn't gonna go anyway but I just don't understand how this is constantly allowed to happen. Complete joke.
You mean the touts? It would be great to avoid it, but to be honest I cant think of any effective way to do it.
But it just seems like huge amounts of tickets are getting into the hands of these arseholes before they actually go on sale to the general public and the only way that can happen is if authorised by the promotor or the venue.
Yeah but the promoter gets guaranteed sales then! The touts are the ones taking the risks. Cant see anything changing.
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mickey1975 wrote:
mickey1975 wrote:
Sklar wrote:Guys, chill. Wait until the week of the event and you'll pick up tickets for face value or below.
You couldn't last time. Follow the Matchroom boys on Twitter for a better chance.
How could you stop it? Many have tried, and failed. The favourite is paperless ticketing, where you produce your id and credit card used in booking and they admit your party. Seat wave and Viagogo simply arrange a meeting place near the venue and give you the buyers phone number and you walk in together. You could be paid a grand to go watch, or leave if you don't like it. Another effort was to send a barcode to your mobile phone, hundreds of crap payg phones with the barcode on popped up on eBay!
Glastonbury dealt with the touts pretty effectively. You now have your face on the ticket. It's a nightmare to get one though, and I haven't been able to get one for 3 years :witzend:
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