Carling Weekend Reading/Leeds

[Tiger]

Originally Posted by Ally

I wonder if Mean Fiddler runs a nice sideline in double price festival tickets on eBay.. I mean some touts have got a history of hundreds of festival tickets sold and when they're on sale the touts have hundreds available at a time per user. It'd be a clever wee way to raise extra cash, no?

a friend a few years back worked at one of those london ticket agencies where u can literally get tickets for anything if your prepared to pay the heavy asking price. he said that the agency had deals with virtually every major promoter about as did other ticket agencies/touts.

he explained it to me that the promoters always hold back a % of sales for everything, % depends on the # tickets to be sold. these would then be given to a combination of friends who they owed favours to (usually shady characters if you catch my drift), their teams of street touts on sale or return, and agencies would put in request for how many they needed and promoters would usually get 30% of final sale value + face value. all of it was done under the radar of the official books too, so it would be cash people could pocket without having to pay tax on.

he went as far as to say the promoters make nearly as much money out of this dealings as they do out of the official sales, especially for big games/shows

and as the new fast automatic daffodils said 'its not what you know, its who you know'