Booking fees,getting ridiculous.

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Rogero

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Aug 4, 2010

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Shoreham

• Jul 11, 2014

• #1

I have just bought two tickets for a concert at Wembley. The tickets were £40 each and there was a booking fee of £10 a ticket. What's going on? Where will this all end?

 

Guy Fawkes

The voice of treason

Sep 29, 2007

8,199

• Jul 11, 2014

• #2

Welcome to the 21st century

 

thedonkeycentrehalf

Retired

Jul 7, 2003

8,613

• Jul 11, 2014

• #3

Rogero said:

I have just bought two tickets for a concert at Wembley. The tickets were £40 each and there was a booking fee of £10 a ticket. What's going on? Where will this all end?

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Do you still have to print your own ticket for that tenner?

 

beorhthelm

A. Virgo, Football Genius

Jul 21, 2003

35,302

• Jul 11, 2014

• #4

you have to ignore it. count it as part of the ticket cost, as a £50 ticket. its a ruse so they can account for the event/venue/booking agent seperatly.

 

Gazwag

5 millionth post poster

Mar 4, 2004

30,137

Bexhill-on-Sea

• Jul 11, 2014

• #5

Another example of why our booking fees are not so bad

 

8ace

Banned

Jul 21, 2003

23,811

Brighton

• Jul 12, 2014

• #6

I bought a ticket for the T20 tonight for my mate - no booking fee

 

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TomandJerry

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Oct 1, 2013

11,450

• Jul 12, 2014

• #7

What, booking fee's for football tickets?! Barber OUT!

 

Paul Reids Sock

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Nov 3, 2004

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• Jul 12, 2014

• #8

That is a little bit extreme as a booking fee but I guess they know people will pay it so feel they can charge what they want

 

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Brovion

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Jul 6, 2003

19,363

• Jul 12, 2014

• #9

Gazwag said:

Another example of why our booking fees are not so bad

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Mug. The time when booking fees can be justified is when the venue, the act, the promoter and the ticket agency are four separate organisations all needing to make a profit. At Brighton and Hove Albion ONE organisation fulfills all four roles. Our 'booking fees' are nothing of the sort, they're simply an internal cost; the same as the light, heat and staff wages in the club shop. The club charges a 'booking fee' as that way the can legally advertise a ticket as being 'only £25', when in fact it will cost you more than that.

It would be more honest if they called it an 'Admin Charge', or even 'Idiot Tax', but 'booking fee' is a known term, and as has been pointed out; regardless of the justification everyone does it, so why should the club be any different? Maximise income streams, FFP and all that.

 

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Vegas Seagull

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Jul 10, 2009

7,782

• Jul 12, 2014

• #10

It's because The Arena has to employ loads of customer service staff to answer hundreds of complaints about the appalling view from all seats not front half on the level