{"id":39099,"date":"2016-12-28T01:10:40","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T18:10:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/original-concert-ticket-sellers-also-rip-off-buyers-letters\/"},"modified":"2016-12-28T01:16:53","modified_gmt":"2016-12-27T18:16:53","slug":"original-concert-ticket-sellers-also-rip-off-buyers-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/original-concert-ticket-sellers-also-rip-off-buyers-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Original concert ticket sellers also rip off buyers | Letters"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nOnce again the problem with secondary ticket prices is being \u201cinvestigated\u201d (Ticket resale sites face inquiry, 20 December). Though laudable, why not take this a step further and investigate the ripping off of ticket buyers by the original ticket sellers. The upfront advertised price of tickets is nowhere near what you actually pay. Booking fees, handling charges, postage, etc can add quite a lot to the cost of each ticket.How can companies justify booking fees of say \u00a38 on a \u00a350 ticket? Then they charge you \u00a32.50 postage for something that arrives by second-class mail. The\u00a0worst example of this I have come across was a ticket to see Graham Nash last summer. The ticket had a face value of \u00a335. On top of this, you were charged a booking fee, a handling charge and a\u00a0\u201cfacility fee\u201d. Total cost was \u00a348. A\u00a040% mark up. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Once again the problem with secondary ticket prices is being \u201cinvestigated\u201d (Ticket resale sites face...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-aaD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":87083,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/viagogo-charged-me-about-50-in-fees-on-top-of-my-ticket-cost\/","url_meta":{"origin":39099,"position":0},"title":"Viagogo charged me about 50% in fees on top of my ticket cost","date":"May 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r We didn\u2019t know what about the extra charges until we got to the checkout page onlineI bought two tickets from Viagogo displayed at \u20ac32 each.After our payment had been processed, a pop-up informed us we had been charged a \u20ac16 booking fee, a handling fee and VAT on top\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":82080,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/advertising-watchdog-cracks-down-on-ticket-resale-websites\/","url_meta":{"origin":39099,"position":1},"title":"Advertising watchdog cracks down on ticket resale websites","date":"March 7, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r ASA bans misleading pricing practices by StubHub UK, Viagogo, Seatwave and GetMeIn!The Advertising Standards Authority has taken action against four large secondary ticketing sites over the misleading presentation of pricing information on their websites. 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