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Been offered tickets to Shepherds Bush for £100 each, dodgy?

Alive 79Alive 79 Posts: 100
edited August 2009 in Given To Fly (live)
I've been offered 2 tickets from someone on facebook (not a friend, just someone from a Pearl Jam group). He wants £100 each which I'm happy to pay but I'm thinking it's just too good to be true. Apparantly they are
e-tickets from ticketweb. He's offering to show me email confirmation plus his ID but surely he could print the email off over and over again and be selling them to loads of different people. I don't know what to do! Terrified of losing £200 but more terrified of missing the show! Advice please!!
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  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    Alive 79 wrote:
    I've been offered 2 tickets from someone on facebook (not a friend, just someone from a Pearl Jam group). He wants £100 each which I'm happy to pay but I'm thinking it's just too good to be true. Apparantly they are
    e-tickets from ticketweb. He's offering to show me email confirmation plus his ID but surely he could print the email off over and over again and be selling them to loads of different people. I don't know what to do! Terrified of losing £200 but more terrified of missing the show! Advice please!!

    That is a dilemma!

    Maybe ask him to put them up as an ebay auction with a buy it now price, and agree to cover his insertion/paypal fees? That way you would have some way of getting your money back if he screws you over.
  • redrockredrock Posts: 18,341
    Does the name ring a bell at all? Member of facebook for a while?
  • WildsWilds Posts: 4,329
    edited August 2009
    facepollution wrote:
    Alive 79 wrote:
    I've been offered 2 tickets from someone on facebook (not a friend, just someone from a Pearl Jam group). He wants £100 each which I'm happy to pay but I'm thinking it's just too good to be true. Apparantly they are
    e-tickets from ticketweb. He's offering to show me email confirmation plus his ID but surely he could print the email off over and over again and be selling them to loads of different people. I don't know what to do! Terrified of losing £200 but more terrified of missing the show! Advice please!!

    That is a dilemma!

    Maybe ask him to put them up as an ebay auction with a buy it now price, and agree to cover his insertion/paypal fees? That way you would have some way of getting your money back if he screws you over.
    :oops:
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  • Alive 79Alive 79 Posts: 100
    redrock wrote:
    Does the name ring a bell at all? Member of facebook for a while?

    He's not actually on Facebook, his girlfriend put the message up. I had a nose at her profile but theres nothing to suggest shes in to anything like pearl jam.

    I thought about the ebay thing but dont want to muck him about if he's genuinely doing me a favour. I suppose I'm doubting him because if he were a true fan then he'd be selling for face value but if he was a tout he'd be selling for £300 on ebay or seatwave. £100 is a strange amount to ask for knowing you could get so much for so this suggests it's because he's selling the emails to many people thinking they'll take the risk for £100
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  • facepollutionfacepollution Posts: 6,834
    I hear ya, and with that in mind I don't think you have anything to lose asking to at least use paypal. Ask to see the confirmation, you might find that the card holder has to be present with their card to collect the tickets - they usually want proof.
  • Alive 79Alive 79 Posts: 100
    Thanks for your advice. He's away til friday so can't do anything til then and still crossing my fingers for the lottery tonight!! I am the unluckiest girl in the world so not expecting anything out of that!
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  • JimNasticsJimNastics Posts: 679
    I had some guy on Gumtree offering to sell me 4 tickets for £400... said he was Ciaran O'Reilly with the eBay username ticketsforyou21. He asked me for my full name, address and ebay username and said he would "set the transaction going through ebay" which sounded odd, so asked him to set up a buy-it-now auction and email me the link, then he went strangely quiet... so I emailed ticketsforyou21 through eBay and sure enough, they didn't know who he was! His advert on Gumtree has since been removed. Be careful out there, like everyone else has said make sure it goes through Paypal at least, and use a credit (not debit) card as the Paypal payment.
  • Alive 79Alive 79 Posts: 100
    JimNastics wrote:
    I had some guy on Gumtree offering to sell me 4 tickets for £400... said he was Ciaran O'Reilly with the eBay username ticketsforyou21. He asked me for my full name, address and ebay username and said he would "set the transaction going through ebay" which sounded odd, so asked him to set up a buy-it-now auction and email me the link, then he went strangely quiet... so I emailed ticketsforyou21 through eBay and sure enough, they didn't know who he was! His advert on Gumtree has since been removed. Be careful out there, like everyone else has said make sure it goes through Paypal at least, and use a credit (not debit) card as the Paypal payment.


    Been doing a bit of investigating and sounds like the selling of e-tickets is the latest scam. Only 1 ticket will ever get you in but the email could have been sold loads of times. Think I'm gonna have to follow my head on this one and make do with the O2
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  • HinnHinn Posts: 1,517
    Alive 79 wrote:
    I've been offered 2 tickets from someone on facebook (not a friend, just someone from a Pearl Jam group). He wants £100 each which I'm happy to pay but I'm thinking it's just too good to be true. Apparantly they are
    e-tickets from ticketweb. He's offering to show me email confirmation plus his ID but surely he could print the email off over and over again and be selling them to loads of different people. I don't know what to do! Terrified of losing £200 but more terrified of missing the show! Advice please!!
    I think I saw the same one, a message from a girl saying her boyfriend has 2 tickets to sell, for 100 quid each.

    Having got one already, and really just looking for an upgrade, I knocked her back right away. Bloody touts.
    115 bucks for half a haircut by a novice? I want my money back!
  • Alive 79Alive 79 Posts: 100
    Hinn wrote:
    Alive 79 wrote:
    I've been offered 2 tickets from someone on facebook (not a friend, just someone from a Pearl Jam group). He wants £100 each which I'm happy to pay but I'm thinking it's just too good to be true. Apparantly they are
    e-tickets from ticketweb. He's offering to show me email confirmation plus his ID but surely he could print the email off over and over again and be selling them to loads of different people. I don't know what to do! Terrified of losing £200 but more terrified of missing the show! Advice please!!
    I think I saw the same one, a message from a girl saying her boyfriend has 2 tickets to sell, for 100 quid each.

    Having got one already, and really just looking for an upgrade, I knocked her back right away. Bloody touts.

    Yep thats the one. And the guy even had the nerve to tell me he's not a tout! Oh well, think after the lotto draw, I have finally realised I'm not going :(
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  • Drum Machine89Drum Machine89 Posts: 2,157
    Hinn wrote:
    Alive 79 wrote:
    I've been offered 2 tickets from someone on facebook (not a friend, just someone from a Pearl Jam group). He wants £100 each which I'm happy to pay but I'm thinking it's just too good to be true. Apparantly they are
    e-tickets from ticketweb. He's offering to show me email confirmation plus his ID but surely he could print the email off over and over again and be selling them to loads of different people. I don't know what to do! Terrified of losing £200 but more terrified of missing the show! Advice please!!
    I think I saw the same one, a message from a girl saying her boyfriend has 2 tickets to sell, for 100 quid each.

    Having got one already, and really just looking for an upgrade, I knocked her back right away. Bloody touts.

    Yeah i think the same girl ripped me off!, I was scammed by her. i was really silly tho. my fault.

    She was offering £50 a tickets. The bank are giving me the £100 quid back thou through the fraud department.
    So be careful people. :x
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  • vedder_soupvedder_soup Posts: 5,861
    were there any etickets to this show? or were they all paper tickets?
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  • icemanapicemanap Posts: 406
    vedder_soup wrote:
    were there any etickets to this show? or were they all paper tickets?
    I haven't heard of etickets yet but a friend of mine has emailed me the same story, same price, same situation so be very wary.
    I got Rodrego y Gabriela tickets via ticketweb and they are etickets, but I haven't seen any posts from PJ fans saying they have etickets for SBE.
    :D Rock on!!!! :D
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  • redrockredrock Posts: 18,341
    Alive 79 wrote:
    Yep thats the one. And the guy even had the nerve to tell me he's not a tout! Oh well, think after the lotto draw, I have finally realised I'm not going :(

    You're local? Go to SB on the day. There may be tix available at the door or, if there are still touts about, once the doors have been opened for a while, their prices will drop dramatically. You never know.....
  • Lillou77Lillou77 Posts: 93
    redrock wrote:

    You're local? Go to SB on the day. There may be tix available at the door or, if there are still touts about, once the doors have been opened for a while, their prices will drop dramatically. You never know.....

    This is what I will be doing...I will not give up! I am wondering if there are windows into the loos I could climb through if someone left one open??
  • redrockredrock Posts: 18,341
    Lillou77 wrote:

    This is what I will be doing...I will not give up! I am wondering if there are windows into the loos I could climb through if someone left one open??

    ***notes to check out loos**
  • Lillou77Lillou77 Posts: 93
    Or maybe someone could open a fire door slightly??? There must be a way :shock:
  • belfast1belfast1 Posts: 788
    its gotta be dodgy - i remember the astoria in 06 and one girl was in tears because she'd paid £400 to a tout for stolen ticket and couldnt get in...
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  • simonortonsimonorton Posts: 173
    Alive 79 wrote:
    I've been offered 2 tickets from someone on facebook (not a friend, just someone from a Pearl Jam group). He wants £100 each which I'm happy to pay but I'm thinking it's just too good to be true. Apparantly they are
    e-tickets from ticketweb. He's offering to show me email confirmation plus his ID but surely he could print the email off over and over again and be selling them to loads of different people. I don't know what to do! Terrified of losing £200 but more terrified of missing the show! Advice please!!

    Exact same details as someone I've been in contact with .... gf on Facebook, passed on phone number, spoken to the chap on the phone - away for a few days, offering id and so on ... reading what's been written here is like reading the post I could have written myself.

    Was the chaps name Andrew by any chance ? It sounds like a total scam, I'm gutted but also so relieved to find this here ... do someone need outing here .. ?
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  • BrianoBriano Posts: 53
    Hi guys, hope the OP doesn't mind me bumping this thread, on a similar subject I was offered tickets for the SBE gig, i asked for proof and was e-mailed back with psuedo receipt giving the order number and stating "Thank you for purchasing tickets on Ticketmaster."

    Dodgy? Yes/No?
  • redrockredrock Posts: 18,341
    Briano wrote:
    "Thank you for purchasing tickets on Ticketmaster."

    Dodgy? Yes/No?

    Ticketweb is part of Ticketmaster.
  • Alive 79Alive 79 Posts: 100
    simonorton wrote:
    Alive 79 wrote:
    I've been offered 2 tickets from someone on facebook (not a friend, just someone from a Pearl Jam group). He wants £100 each which I'm happy to pay but I'm thinking it's just too good to be true. Apparantly they are
    e-tickets from ticketweb. He's offering to show me email confirmation plus his ID but surely he could print the email off over and over again and be selling them to loads of different people. I don't know what to do! Terrified of losing £200 but more terrified of missing the show! Advice please!!

    Exact same details as someone I've been in contact with .... gf on Facebook, passed on phone number, spoken to the chap on the phone - away for a few days, offering id and so on ... reading what's been written here is like reading the post I could have written myself.

    Was the chaps name Andrew by any chance ? It sounds like a total scam, I'm gutted but also so relieved to find this here ... do someone need outing here .. ?



    Yep his name is Andrew, he's away til tomorrow and his girlfriend is called Zel. He text me earlier saying he'd email the tickets to me if I paid by Paypal so I felt happier about it (thinking Paypal would cover me??) but if you've been in contact with the same guy then this is 100% dodgy.
    Gutted that my 5th chance of going has fallen through but at least I havent lost £200 along the way.

    Thanks for all your advice guys :(
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  • redrockredrock Posts: 18,341
    Alive 79 wrote:
    Yep his name is Andrew, he's away til tomorrow and his girlfriend is called Zel. (

    http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=1 ... 434&ref=nf

    Conversation between Zel and others. A couple of people vouching for her but I wouldn't be too sure about this.....

    Apparently the tickets are gone anyway....
  • Alive 79Alive 79 Posts: 100
    redrock wrote:
    Alive 79 wrote:
    Yep his name is Andrew, he's away til tomorrow and his girlfriend is called Zel. (

    http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=1 ... 434&ref=nf

    Conversation between Zel and others. A couple of people vouching for her but I wouldn't be too sure about this.....

    Apparently the tickets are gone anyway....

    I'm even more confused now! The people vouching for her could be friends I suppose. If she's saying the tickets are gone then that must be to me because I'd arrange to meet her bf tomorrow. I really dont know what to believe. Also, I confiemed with Andrew on Sunday that I would have the tickets so how come Simon has been offered them as well?

    Does anyone know if I would be covered if I paid through paypal or does it have to go through ebay?
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  • BrianoBriano Posts: 53
    redrock wrote:
    Briano wrote:
    "Thank you for purchasing tickets on Ticketmaster."

    Dodgy? Yes/No?

    Ticketweb is part of Ticketmaster.

    I know but for those who purchased tickets through ticketweb did that line (above) come up for them? would it not have said thank you for purchasing tickets on Ticketweb???
  • Lillou77Lillou77 Posts: 93
    Briano wrote:
    ]

    I know but for those who purchased tickets through ticketweb did that line (above) come up for them? would it not have said thank you for purchasing tickets on Ticketweb???

    Was this a guy on craigslist selling them for £80? If so I was in contact with him but figured it was a scam....looked to me like he had a confirmation from the O2 gig and was trying to pass it off as SBE,,as far as I know ticketweb have separate emails/confirmation/tickets...
  • BrianoBriano Posts: 53
    Lillou77 wrote:
    Briano wrote:
    ]

    I know but for those who purchased tickets through ticketweb did that line (above) come up for them? would it not have said thank you for purchasing tickets on Ticketweb???

    Was this a guy on craigslist selling them for £80? If so I was in contact with him but figured it was a scam....looked to me like he had a confirmation from the O2 gig and was trying to pass it off as SBE,,as far as I know ticketweb have separate emails/confirmation/tickets...


    unfortunately yes! thanks for confirming what ii thought!
  • solace23solace23 Posts: 704
    Do not sell them!!!
  • Alive 79Alive 79 Posts: 100
    Right, I decided I would rather risk losing £100 than always regret not trying or knowing whether they were legit so I got them! Wish me luck everyone, if you see a small blonde crying uncontrollably, that will be me with my dodgy tickets!
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  • JollyJolly Posts: 100
    Good luck, hope you found a genuine bargain!

    Jolly :)
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