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[stoney_stu]

Any Neil Young tickets ? cash waiting ... Playhouse Gig in Edinburgh!

Please ?

Pretty Please

someone must have two?

Cheers

Stu

[stoney_stu]

C'mon .. some one take pity on me ...

Sell me your Neil Young tickets... I bet there are a few of you that have them and don't really care either way about him ...

I'd have Neil Youngs babies ...

;-)

[Bigsby]

Why would anybody sell them to you when they could sell them on ebay?

[Diesel]

Originally Posted by Bigsby

Why would anybody sell them to you when they could sell them on ebay?

Because eBay is full of scammers and the one characteristic of tickets that renders a sale vulnerable to complete failure, is that they are time-bound.

If someone sold their tix 3-7 days before the gig on eBay and didn't get paid, by the time it was sorted out, it's highly unlikely that they'd successfully sell them again in time - not at the same price of the bogus sale anyway.

Cash in hand has to be better than the promise of payment (minus all the rip-off fees), particularly with an item that has finite value.

[stoney_stu]

The main reason I don't want to use e-bay is that its full of Touts...

:-)

[Diesel]

Originally Posted by stoney_stu

The main reason I don't want to use e-bay is that its full of Touts...

:-)

...and cunts.

...of the highest order!

[Bigsby]

Agreed on all counts, but realisticly your chances of some altruistic individual offering you their tickets on here for face value when they are going for 400 quid a pair on ebay are slim to nil.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

[Diesel]

Originally Posted by Bigsby

Agreed on all counts, but realisticly your chances of some altruistic individual offering you their tickets on here for face value when they are going for 400 quid a pair on ebay are slim to nil.

Sorry to be the bearer of bad news.

Ah, I'm in on this one as well and we don't expect to pay anything near face value. Stuart and I are fucking minted and will pay top dollar for the right tix.

Maybe my acoustic-loving friend should have pointed that out.

The prices have dropped a wee bit since the initial eBay panic buys - £350-ish is the going rate for a pair.

And it'll drop further the closer the gig gets, as the carpet-bagging hold-outs realise their gravy train is about to come off the rails very quickly.

It's amazing how many ticket holders suddenly have meetings/functions/whatever "they can't get out of" - even MONTHS before a sell-out gig.

Funny that.

Now no cunt'll want to sell us the tickets

Ps : Stu - Bigsby loves Mark Knopfler more than you love Neil Young!

[Bigsby]

Originally Posted by Diesel

Ps : Stu - Bigsby loves Mark Knopfler more than you love Neil Young!

Yup, that's why I've already got my front row tickets for Knopfler's gig at the Playhouse in May.

If you don't get any I would say it would be worth going down to the gig anyway, you might get a couple outside the gig on the night.

[Bigsby]

PS Currently reading "Hotel California", a look at the LA music scene in the late 60s and early 70s. Pretty damn good, and lots of good stuff on Neil Young. Picked it up for £3 in HMV.