mickey1975 wrote:Are pubs that sell beer for £5 a pint you can get for £1 a can utter lowlife. Or any shopkeepers or traders?
That's completely different.
A pub that has to pay higher rent/rates, more staff, more equipment/upkeep, higher insurance is obviously going to have to mark up higher than a bloke selling cans in a corner shop.
Its a distortion of supply and demand - there is no shortage of, say, Fosters Lager. If you want to sit at home and drink out of a can then good for you, yours for a quid. If you want to sit in a building someone else is paying for on furniture someone else has paid for and drink out of a glass someone else has paid for, pulled by bar staff someone else is paying then you're going to have to pay more than a quid for it.
Profiteering from very limited supply (in this case, tickets to a one-off event) is considerably more questionable than someone marking up beer, milk or fruit & veg.
I was just going to say ticket touts are arseholes.
But aye, what this guys says!
In my experience Ticket touts are horrible nasty cnuts. They seem to largely be former football hooligan firms.
The ones around Brixton are vile -I've seen them beating up some young kid for trying to sell his ticket independently to someone on the street, and on another occasion, abusing a local Pakistani shopkeeper with racist comments.
I've never really understood why they are allowed to get away with intimidating people on the streets, the police just seem to turn a blind eye.
mickey1975 wrote:I met my buyers with my name printed on the ticket. It was still worthwhile.
Do they check the names. Mickey? I've bought a couple of tickets for my niece for a concert for her and her mate. Will I have to go to the door with them?
ste1983 wrote:
Mate the odd bit of touting is the least low life thing I get upto
Let me know if you need a ticket for anything I'll do you a good price
Wish I'd known this.... Bought two tkts outside the ground for the Wales England match yesterday for €500
Touting football is illegal my friend.......I would never dream of doing anything illegal
Hope you had a good time and those nasty Russians didn't get you
Litmus test will be tomorrow when we play them in Toulouse, but hearing from boys still there and they ain't seen any of them about... Think they done their business against the English, made there point and fucked off back to Russia
mickey1975 wrote:I met my buyers with my name printed on the ticket. It was still worthwhile.
Do they check the names. Mickey? I've bought a couple of tickets for my niece for a concert for her and her mate. Will I have to go to the door with them?
