bidding or ticket buying and the nightmare within...

[what..the?]

I was up early this morning to try and ring the local box office for Lee Evans tickets while trying to book on line at the same time, I was on hold for 30 minutes, in the mean time I got better tickets on line but it was too slow and kept crashing and wanting me to submit full details the register an account before I could buy when I only had like 5 minutes left before my tickets were re-released to the public noooooooo!

Got two ok tickets in the end, was soooooo stressful though,

Do you have memories of bidding on ebay last minute or trying to get tickets....?

I used to bid last minute on ebay for vintage star wars items when I had dial up and everyone else had broadband pmsl

Also tried to get 'The Police' reunion tickets Birm NEC result - successful yay!

Failed to get tickets for a Starwars event about 5 years ago where they were running all the movies in one day with a separate prop's stand event....it was a one off!

Have you succeed against all odds or missed out on 'never to be seen again'?

[pa___ul3]

erm yeah... sore topic... bought 2 tix for Kings of Leon a couple of years back, £90 for the pair, turned out to be a fraudster and I couldn't get my money back because of some daft loophole in ebay regarding the timescale ('cus I bought 2 months before the event).

[what..the?]

man sorry to hear that..... but at least people on here might be more careful after reading your comment

[pa___ul3]

let's hope, I'm not sure how much safer those "fan to fan" ticket sites are but I'd never use ebay again for tickets!

[what..the?]

i don't use ebay at all any more, I don't trust sellers and to sell myself takes too much time as a result i sent my items to a local auctioneer who ripped me off by selling items for like 10% of what they were worth. Maybe free adds are the way if I had to sell but I don't like people I don't know turning up...so I'm stuck and give even valuable stuff to charity to see if gets a good home.

Wish I had done that with the auction items worth over £1,000 will get about £100 back from them. On top they damaged an electrical item messing about with it which now has no value was worth £100+, and some items seem to be missing from the auction all together they are probably round their house.

[tastymorsel]

OMG was going to buy KOL tickets from there.Thanks for the warning

[Mick-Talbot]

Warning or scaremongering?

[pa___ul3]

it was hardly scaremongering Mick, I just said what happened to me and for that reason I wouldn't again, it may well be fine from other sellers but naturally my bad experience put me off. Other than that I've always found ebay to be ace. Maybe worth trying to contact the seller before bidding to suss out if they're legit.

[Mick-Talbot]

The feedback tells you if they are legit. I have never had one bad buy or sell on ebay.

what sort of feedback did the seller have?

[pa___ul3]

I can't remember to be honest, it was a couple of years ago, I know I should have checked them out more, that's all I'm advising now, but the question was if we'd had any stories of ebay bidding and that was mine. I didn't mean to suggest if you buy tickets off ebay you'll get your fingers burnt!

[Mick-Talbot]

fair point, Paul.
but like i say if you show due diligence, and check out the sellers feedback, things should be ok.
It was tastymorsels reaction that made me say scaremongering.
Don't be put of tasty, just check out the feedback.

[what..the?]

I think everyone has to be careful as Ebay is a 'distance sale' and you don't know the person, I think any warning or bad experiences are good to hear, it warns us all to not just jump into things.

[tastymorsel]

Thanks Mick.I'll do that.Should have thought that one out myself.

[pa___ul3]

yep tastymorsel, so should I!