A free holiday, surprisingly cheap flights, rare sports tickets – offers like this are often too good to be true. Have you fallen foul of holiday scammers?
(more about holiday scams…)
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Time to rebalance the ticket resale market
8If you’re a music fan – or sports fan, or theatre-goer for that matter – then you’ll almost certainly be familiar with the perils of buying tickets online.
in Money, Shopping, Travel & Leisure
What New Year’s resolutions do you want companies to make?
23The New Year is in full swing, and so are our resolutions (hopefully). But what if we could submit a wish list of resolutions that we’d like companies to commit to?
Are Adele’s tickets for touts or for someone like you?
22Tickets for Adele’s 2016 tour sold out in less than 20 minutes this morning, yet hundreds are available on secondary sites costing as much as £3,000.
Purple rage – the re-sale tickets stitch-up
33We spent eight weeks monitoring four of the biggest secondary ticketing sites and found tickets being resold that hadn’t even gone on sale yet. It seems touts are spoiling the fun for everyone.
in Money, Shopping, Travel & Leisure
1D and U2 fans missing vital ticket details on top reselling websites
13Have you ever tried to buy a gig ticket on a resale website with no knowledge of where you’ll be sitting or how much the ticket originally cost? We have.
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Update: dodgy rugby ticket site shut down
7It’s under a month until the start of the Rugby World Cup 2015, and if you haven’t yet got yourself a ticket you need to watch out. There are dodgy sites re-selling Rugby Cup tickets you might not get.
Is this the highest ever ticket mark-up?
23Have we found the largest ever ‘processing fee’ charged by a ticket company? If you were to guess how much that fee might be, what would you say? £10? £50? £100? Try again…
Your view: high prices stop you going to the cinema
25We asked you if ticket prices have affected how often you go to see films. Plenty of you said they have, hardly surprising when some cinemas charge up to £15 a ticket – and that’s before popcorn and refreshments. (more about cinema prices …)
Have you had problems with tickets from Lastminute.com?
17Unhappy customers of Lastminute.com are to get vouchers after posting complaints about the company on Which? Convo. Their comments were among many prompted by a previous Convo about the company.