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Just the Ticket

By scott

Why I love buying Concert tickets and why you should always look on more than one site.

Today I was looking at an upcoming gig and on Ticketmaster the price for 2 tickets was quoted as £16.50 each (inc booking fee etc). On See Tickets the same tickets were £15.75 each (in booking fee) but with an additional charge of £2.25 as a transaction fee for any order.

So, a total of £33 on Ticketmaster and £33.75 on See Tickets.

So, I bought the tickets from Ticketmaster, right?

WRONG.

What I had not yet mentioned was the £5.25 additional charge by Ticketmaster for sending the tickets to you by secure mail ? their only delivery option: no box office pick up or eTicket or unsecure mail option. No postage charge on See Tickets, so the actual totals for the two tickets on both sites are:

Ticketmaster: £38.25
See Tickets: £33.75

As an aside, the face value of the tickets is £13 each, which means Ticketmaster is just shy of charging you for a third ticket to buy just two.

Anyone remember the days when you could buy at the box office and pay the price it actually says on the ticket? …

Full post as published by Information Overload on January 21, 2010 (boomark / email).