Stereoboard - Name and shame

Stereoboard (a ticket price comparison site) has taken it upon itself to name and shame some 'dodgy' ticket sites, including publishing a long list on their site and mentioning the fact that even though the url may contain the band or artists name it may not be legitimate.

Well, excuse me. I've seen some great enterprising bloggers who have some of these sites who only offer links to first point of sale agents like Ticketmaster and then offer links to resale websites when those original tickets are sold out. Stereobored seem to think it's OK to pander to 'genuine music fans' and offer links direct to resale sites straight of the bat. Come on.

The music scene is looking like it's going the way of all things, great sites like Wegottickets who were the first to do away with the paper ticket and still offer incredibly reasonable admin fees are slowly been pushed out by other 'cats' sweetening the deal with promoters. Eat Your Own Ears the cooler than thou promotion team behind big Hackney hits Field Day and AppleCart recently seem to have hopped into bed with See Tickets, and now feature all links to tickets in their mail out to See Tickets.

Now anybody with any sense will do themselves a favour and check with Wegottickets first, because you might be making a bit of a saving. James Yorkston and the Athletes are playing a show at Cecil Sharp House to celebrate 10 years since 'Moving up Country' was released. Tickets £14.50 so 4 tickets is (4 x 14.50 = 58) £58.00. Ok so far so good, Wegottickets charge £5.80 admin (10%) making a total of £63.80. Over at See Tickets we get a £2.45 booking fee on each ticket taking it to £67.80 and then another admin fee on top of that, a mysterious £2.31 bringing the grand total to £70.11.

Come on?