Are You Going To V2009 This Year?
Unless you’ve plenty of time, getting your mitts on a concert or sports ticket before it sells out is not easy. For Instance, the entire Manic Street Preachers tour of the UK in 2007 sold out in under and hour. So how on earth can someone who’s got a full time job get their mitts on a ticket if they’re selling out so fast?
Go online and get one.
Not so long ago, the only means to get hold of a second-hand sports or music gig ticket was through a tout at the event itself . This inevitably meant paying over the odds, or even perhaps handed bogus tickets which would inevitably be spotted as you tried to enter the event – meaning you not only miss the game or concert, you’ve wasted a bundle of dosh in the process.
However, matters have improved for music and sports devotees. Thanks to the internet, the ticket resale marketplace has cleaned up its act in the last 10 years. Now there is a huge amount of competition to resell tickets online, the market has become self-regulating. You’re selling the ticket for HOW much?! I’ll look elsewhere! And so many ticket sellers offer very cheap insurance if the music gig / sports event is called off. And with tough competition online, resale tickets have come right down in price to the point that sometimes you’re not paying much more than the actual original value of the ticket.
Today you can buy tickets for many sorts of concerts and sporting events. From basketball games to soccer to cricket, right through to getting hold of front row seats for your favourite band; secondary tickets offer a 2nd chance to go to the event you want to go to. So what to expect online? Simply use a search engine and enter in your keywords like V 2009 tickets, and you will see a huge array of secondary ticket agents who can offer that very ticket to you.
Not everyone is content with secondary tickets however. For example, Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails calls secondary ticket agents “parasites”, and he’d like to see an end to the resale of event tickets. However, he’s missing the point of resold tickets : people simply do not have the time to queue up for tickets. They’re more likely working when the tickets are on sale, and physically cannot be in the right place at the right time to get hold of the ticket they want in that precious 60 or so minutes it takes for an entire tour to sell out.
While there is strong competition between secondary ticket agents, we believe this is a much needed service for true fans who were unable to buy the tickets the first time around.
