Neuro Posted December 22, 2005 Report Share Posted December 22, 2005 I have another gripe with them at the moment. You remember I bought tickets from them as a last resort for myself and Steve for the Newcastle Godskitchen event at the Metro Radio Arena last November, and I mentioned that not only do they: ticket you buySend them to the address of your credit card (no secondary address option) Post the tickets so they only just arrive in time Insist on posting them by Royal Mail's expensive "Special Delivery" service but they also keep your email on their mailing list, which they promptly distribute to "related third party" companies that may be of "interest" to you (after having read the small print). Now, there's no option to opt out of this, even though I didn't opt in, and I've unsubscribed twice to no avail.So, whatever you do if you're ordering tickets, please steer clear of Ticketmaster.co.uk! Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! :evil: :evil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KR Tech Posted December 23, 2005 Report Share Posted December 23, 2005 A rookie error, using Ticketmaster.co.uk - tut-tut! Serves you right for being lazy! I always use proper offices for concert or match tickets, at least you actually speak to a person that way :wink: KR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigsteve Posted December 23, 2005 Report Share Posted December 23, 2005 I still get emails off them too, after buying tickets for last year's Love Parade through them. In fact, I think I unsubscribed as well, but to no avail :evil: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JasonB Posted December 23, 2005 Report Share Posted December 23, 2005 Well what you do is make it so those emails go to yer junk mail! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigsteve Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 Unfortunately I've been forced to use Ticketmaster again for T in the Park tickets. £213.45 for 2 Weekend Only tickets :shock: Also managed to get 2 Saturday Only tickets for £130.70 from See tickets for friends At least we're going!! 8-) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neuro Posted February 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 I still get junk mail off them even now. "Don't miss Darren Mikkelson" etc - who the hell is he? I don't care, and I don't want to know. I've started bouncing them back to their real contact address now to annoy them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Max Kane Posted February 17, 2006 Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 I had a similar experience with ticketmaster today, purcashing my Red Hot Chilli Peppers tickets online, the tickets cost £40, then they have the nerve to add on £4.50 each ticket for 'handling charge', Now some items thats fair enough a service charge or whatever or as in some cases there is a flat charge per order but they do it per ticket, a disgrace. then they insist upon charging £4.50 postage for royal mail special delivery! who cares how specially my bits of paper are handled and delivered as long as they get here and they get me into the ground. At least i managed to turn off the auto email option, no annoying emails from them telling me about crap artists live in Stockholm :roll: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neuro Posted February 17, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 17, 2006 You'll still get emails mate, I guarantee it. Post back here when you do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigsteve Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 Get this then! I had to fork out 6.75 'Convenience Charge' PER ticket, 4.95 Order Processing Fee AND 4.95 Delivery Charge. There was very limited other options to get tickets because of the 2 per postal/email address rule and I used a special password to access Slam's ticket allocation. Without that, I'd have been stuffed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neuro Posted February 20, 2006 Author Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 That's atrocious. "Convenience charge" now there's an irony if ever I saw one! Did you have no alternative but to use Ticketmaster? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigsteve Posted February 20, 2006 Report Share Posted February 20, 2006 Ticketmaster were the only online/phone agency I knew of that were selling them at the time. I later found another site (Way Ahead/See) after reading about it on the eFestivals forum. But I guess Ticketmaster had the biggest allocation and I did have that link to a seperate batch of tickets through them. I got the 2nd set at 9.45 and apparently the full allocation had gone by 9.50 :shock: With no Glasto this year, the demand is well high Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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