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08-13-2004, 09:33 PM
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 Crackdown on online ticket sellers - Crackdown on online ticket sellers Summary:
Despite precautions taken to avoid the chance of touts, four tickets to see JK Rowling at the Edinburgh Book Festival were up for sale on eBay recently. Article:
Despite precautions taken to avoid the chance of touts, four tickets to see JK Rowling at the Edinburgh Book Festival were up for sale on eBay recently. Rowling's publishers contacted eBay and the tickets were taken off the website before they were sold. The Book Festival is getting underway today, and Rowling's book-reading will take place on August 15th. Quote: As the annual event was getting under way today, it was revealed that four of the 500 tickets allocated to fans by an impartial ballot, had been put up for sale on internet auction site eBay.
Quote: The seller said that the main ticket holder had to be male and would be required to provide address identification and proof of payment, both of which he would provide.
Before the tickets could be sold, however, they were removed from the internet auction site, at the request of JK Rowling’s publicity team.
A spokeswoman for JK Rowling said they had acted quickly to ensure the tickets were not sold on. "This was brought to our attention by a fan and we were obviously concerned," she said. "We contacted eBay and asked them to remove the tickets from sale, as they were never intended to be sold like this.
The tickets were clearly marked as being non-transferable and the seller knew he needed to provide personal details to whoever bought them.
"It was a very naughty thing to try and do. This is the only incident we’ve heard of and we would hope that with the appearance coming up quite soon it will be the first and last incident."
Quote: Olivier Joly, of the Edinburgh Book Festival, said: "People who have been allocated tickets each have their own ticket and selling them on is not allowed. Because of the security measures we have put in place I would not expect any more people trying to sell the tickets.
"To be honest, most people wouldn’t part with them, they are families with young children and more than anything they want to meet JK Rowling."
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08-14-2004, 12:34 AM
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| | Poltergeist
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As someone who entered the competition, I'm thoroughly disgusted the person didn't have the deceny to send the tickets back to Bloomsbury. They should be heavily fined for what they did - I am so glad they got taken away because I doubt JK wanted the ticket thing to be about money and bidding - it was randomly chosen for a reason, to be equal and fair to all fans. Trying to make them compete by bidding prices isn't fair.
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08-14-2004, 12:38 AM
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| | Chizpurfle
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That's very lame and exactly what i predicted would happen.
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08-14-2004, 12:42 AM
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People like that need to be slapped!!! Grrr on them! :cat:
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08-14-2004, 01:17 AM
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| | Ramora
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I'm not surprised by this at all. But to all the people who really, really wanted to go and didn't get drawn its a slap in the face. How dare he(?) do that to all the fans who would love to be there.
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08-14-2004, 03:23 AM
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| | Bicorn
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ooh that sucks. but it would suck more if no1 noticed the tickets on ebay and they really did get sold! btw, did they decide on a winner for the JKR festival thingy (another thread) where you ask a q and they pick the most original one? it was sposed to end a few days (maybe yesterday).. wonder who won.. eh neway im glad they stopped the person who was selling!
edit wait, was it four people selling? or else how would one guy get four tickets, all to himself? weird...
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08-14-2004, 09:22 AM
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| | Poltergeist
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Quote: edit wait, was it four people selling? or else how would one guy get four tickets, all to himself? weird...
No - the competition was family orientated so people applied for up to 1 - 4 tickets in the random fan draw.
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08-14-2004, 07:09 PM
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| | Chizpurfle
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:/ It's people like this that make it so J.K Rowling and other famous people don't want to have meetings or interviews, it puts them off knowing that maybe someone will try to sell their ticket on eBay...
And why on earth would you sell tickets when you've got them, when hundreds of fans would love to get their hands on them? Quote: "To be honest, most people wouldn’t part with them, they are families with young children and more than anything they want to meet JK Rowling." Oh yeah, silly me, MONEY. Everything in this world is focused on money and these 'fans' shouldn't have even entered, hopefully some company, like the BBC, will have a competition so real fans have a chance of winning them... :sorcerer: EDIT By the way Emma I LOVE your new siggy, especially the Hermione one!  | |
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