Last week I convinced my folks to come down from Shetland to visit me and my girlfriend and see Alter Bridge with us. I got them into the band a few months ago because I'm a great son and couldn't let my parents live without AB in their lives. They have booked time off work and I've paid for a hotel for them. This is a problem....
Now here's where my MAIN problem lies. THE GIG IS SOLD OUT! This wouldn't annoy me quite as much if it was sold out by actual fans buying tickets, but it wasn't. Again I've fallen victim to the vultures that purchase tonnes of tickets on the day they go on sale just to sell them for £65+ a pop on Ebay etc. (£65 is the lowest price i've seen so far, and that's before even paying for a f*cking stamp).
If anyone could help me out that would be fantastic and I would be forever in your debt.
Here is some food for thought though. Should there not be some kind of way to prevent this happening? In my eyes it is a crime. It is stealing. Literally stealing. They are getting the tickets only for profit and nothing else when none of the money, bar face value, is rightfully theirs. Tickets have a face value for a reason and it should be only that price unless it's last minute and there's a bidding war because that is expected for any good gig. But £65 buy it now more than a month before the gig? Just no.
If there is anyone on this website (and I hope there isn't) that does this then you have NO right to call yourself a fan of the band. A bands fan base is a community and depriving that community of something that is to be shared and enjoyed by all is just plain wrong.
Sorry to be on such a downer but I'm absolutely RAGING!!
Standing sold out quick for Glasgow....better to be there than not at all, would kill me lol
