Saturday morning. Eight fifty five. I'm sitting in front to the computer waiting for nine o'clock. The time that tickets for next year's Bruce Springsteen concerts go on sale. At nine o'clock I click on. All I'm offered is two at the very very back and at the very very highest point of the South Stand at Manchester. I try other sites. Nothing. Eventually I get a ticket for Hyde Park. Only one ticket as my wife is just over five foot and gets understandably fed up at paying good money to stare at somebody's back. So I'm going to see Springsteen. Not with my wife. Not at my venue of choice. Maybe I was just unlucky. Hundreds of thousands of people clicked on at exactly the same moment.
Yes, but hang on a moment. I've just been on e bay and they're log jammed with Springsteen tickets. 6 for Sunderland. 8 for Dublin. All about to change hands at huge prices. And then I went on to look for tickets generally and the sites that said they'd sell tickets on Saturday and didn't have any now suddenly have stacks of them at prices up to £1398.
Oh, and on Friday I went on the same sites and they were offering pre sale tickets - that weren't officially on sale yet - for inflated prices.
So it wasn't just bad luck or bad timing that prevents me and God knows how many others from buying tickets.
It's a huge fucking organised scam.
This is disgraceful, but it isn't news.
The ticket agencies either have inadequate security or they collude in the process. Because they can make even more money by allowing the bulk pre purchase of tickets that they can re sell at huge prices and take a rake off from that sale too.
I have one question and I haven't the faintest idea of the answer.
How can it be stopped?
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