Reading tickets - anyone used this site before?

[MiniMadMike]

Looking to buy a couple of reading festival tickets - missed out originally but now am in a position to buy a couple. Ive been told about the website viagogo.co.uk who appear to be selling tickets. I am told its genuine and it does look it, i realise the tickets are very expensive there but i have no other choice. Has anyone bought tickets from this site before? Can anyone assure me it is genuine?

Cheers.

[scirocco265]

Viagogo is a genuine site. It's similar to ScarletMist as it allows people to sell their unwanted tickets. It differs from ScarletMist, however, in that people can request whatever price they like for the tickets, rather than the RRP so - in essence - it is legalised ticket touting

[Libertine]

If you have the balls, you can wait until a week before the festival, and then go on ebay and buy a ticket at face value.

It doesn't matter how many tickets are for sale now and and what price, it always happens.

Good luck

I'm hoping to get a ticket too, since it will be the 10th year in a row that I've been..

[jagracer]

Libertine said:

If you have the balls, you can wait until a week before the festival, and then go on ebay and buy a ticket at face value.

It doesn't matter how many tickets are for sale now and and what price, it always happens.

Good luck

I'm hoping to get a ticket too, since it will be the 10th year in a row that I've been..

I sold some last year but one and in the last week they were going for double face value, I ended up with something like a 75% mark-up on one pair I sold. If you are that desperate to get some I'd start looking now. Just a thought about ebay, I sold a pair of mine on ebay to a dealer who for some reason had been refused his tickets from Seetickets after selling them so you need to be confident of the person you buy from.

Edited by jagracer on Sunday 2nd May 14:08

[Libertine]

jagracer said:

Libertine said:

If you have the balls, you can wait until a week before the festival, and then go on ebay and buy a ticket at face value.

It doesn't matter how many tickets are for sale now and and what price, it always happens.

Good luck

I'm hoping to get a ticket too, since it will be the 10th year in a row that I've been..

I sold some last year but one and in the last week they were going for double face value, I ended up with something like a 75% mark-up on one pair I sold. If you are that desperate to get some I'd start looking now. Just a thought about ebay, I sold a pair of mine on ebay to a dealer who for some reason had been refused his tickets from Seetickets after selling them so you need to be confident of the person you buy from.

Edited by jagracer on Sunday 2nd May 14:08

Yeah, it is a bit of a gamble leaving it to the last minute. I've got a few contacts, so someone usually comes through and sorts me a ticket, whether I pay for it or not.

Just looked at finished auctions on ebay, and not many tickets are being sold for more then £205, some as low as £180!!

Every year I go, the kids seem to getting younger. My mate's stopped telling his story about the time he saw Nirvana there, as a lot of people that go to Reading weren't even born then..