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[Woolies]

Originally Posted by Neil

I'm happy enough with the touts just being named and shamed as they are just now to be honest.

I think you've got the best idea here Neil.

Possibly have a guideline rule that the face value (+ booking fees) must be given in the post selling the ticket so that there is no doubt if the selling price is fair or not.

The reputation system and posts showing disapproval are better ways to discourage touting in general I reckon.

Originally Posted by Lucky Rathen

If Ebay gave a fuck they would just stop people selling tickets altogether. They've almost single handedly taken touting out of the underground and turned it into something people are actually making a living from.

What is annoying is when you see tickets on there the day they went on sale for £££s more than they were bought for 10 minutes previous.

Yeah. They think by making you type in the face value of the ticket they're doing something about ticket touts.

Ebay clearly don't give a fuck, so long as people sell their stuff on there. But to be honest, I don't suppose they have some sort of social responsibility to ensure nobody gets ripped off.

It's a difficult one for sure, because the venues/ticket companies could go out of their way to get names and address and/or photos printed on tickets etc or various other methods, but that costs money, and will mean ticket prices go up anyway.

I do like that Glastonbury have actually attempted to make steps towards getting rid of the touts, but when I went to the festival the first year of putting photos on the ticket, I don't think they actually bothered to look at my ticket before slapping a wristband on...

[Bigsby]

Originally Posted by Woolies

I think you've got the best idea here Neil.

Possibly have a guideline rule that the face value (+ booking fees) must be given in the post selling the ticket so that there is no doubt if the selling price is fair or not.

The reputation system and posts showing disapproval are better ways to discourage touting in general I reckon.

Although this won't discourage someone who is setting up an account for the express purpose of touting a ticket.

When I went to the Led Zeppelin reunion at the 02 last year they went to extremes, ie I needed a unique reference code from my confirmation email, my passport and then they put wristbands on myself and my guest which could not be removed.

Seemed to work for the most part, but led (no pun intended) to massive queues to get the wristbands sorted out.

[Woolies]

Originally Posted by Bigsby

Although this won't discourage someone who is setting up an account for the express purpose of touting a ticket.

Good point.
I was confusing websites for a bit there - the one I had in mind only allows Trading Post style threads to be started by already existing & contributing members. Any account seen to be joining purely for commercial purposes (eg. selling a ticket) needs approval from site admin or removed as spam.

[Lucky Rathen]

Originally Posted by Woolies

Good point.
I was confusing websites for a bit there - the one I had in mind only allows Trading Post style threads to be started by already existing & contributing members. Any account seen to be joining purely for commercial purposes (eg. selling a ticket) needs approval from site admin or removed as spam.

Like our good new friend and helpful contributor Oli777 for example.

[Jeanette]

I'm all for people to be named and shamed for this. There's no reason for inflated ticket costs on here and as I keep saying that's what ebay is for if people really want to make a profit.

[-matthEw-]

Although even eBay shouldn't be used for it!!! But I agree that there should be no room for it on aberdeen-music,com

[black_matter]

I would agree that it's in the best interests of the site to set rules in place to only sell tickets for face value and booking fee. Not only is it bad publicity for the site to be seen catering for ticket touts (not in anyway blaming you neil, blaming the twats who put up tickets for stupid prices) but it's also bad for local people and site users who want to see this gigs but cant. Granted, I haven't actually seen anyone on the site blatantly trying to make money from tickets as badly as the jimmy carr thread, but to try and dispell ticket touting can only be a good thing.

[french_disko]

Negative rating points exist for a reason, people.

[Lucky Rathen]

Originally Posted by french_disko

Negative rating points exist for a reason, people.

Negative rep points aren't going to put people off touting their tickets though is it... unless they bring in an automatic ban if you go below a certain number of points. Everyone go and give Oli777 negative rep points and see if we can get rid of the cunt