Anger as touts snap up tickets
MUSIC fans were left disappointed as sold-out tickets for an upcoming Glasgow festival were touted online for more than £500.
Tickets for the BBC Radio 6 Music Festival, which will take place at the end of March, went on sale on Friday morning.
Big-name acts including Depeche Mode sold out within minutes leaving fans disappointed.
Those who missed out on tickets for the Barrowlands show, originally priced at £30, were then directed to secondary websites where prices ranged from £300 to £700.
Depeche Mode fan James Cassidy, 37, blasted secondary websites for preventing genuine music fans from getting into the show.
He said: “After trying on the laptop and phone we were told it had sold out and were redirected from Ticketweb to Viagogo where tickets are going for £600 upwards.
“It’s a high-profile gig and the capacity is only 2000 but if it was only genuine fans I might have got some.
“It’s always just your luck whether you manage to get tickets but to see them all get hoovered up by Viagogo to get sold on again at stupid prices is disappointing.
“We went online and we can now go to another European tour date and get flights, tickets and hotel and it will probably cost less than one ticket.
A spokeswoman for event organiser BBC said: “To guard against ticket touts reselling tickets for profit and tickets being resold via the web for profit, 6 Music Festival tickets will be printed with the name of the lead purchaser who will have to show their ID on arrival at the venue to gain entry.
“There will be security around the venues to monitor any touting of tickets.
“Anyone offering their tickets for resale is breaking the Terms & Conditions they agreed to during the booking process and we reserve the right to cancel them.
“We strongly recommend the public do not buy tickets being resold as the purchaser cannot guarantee they are genuine and not copies, and without the ID of the lead purchaser they will not gain entry to the Festival.”