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

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.

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:

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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??

Or maybe someone could open a fire door slightly??? There must be a way :shock:

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 .. ?