Fan Coldplay Fan completamente rimborsato per sedili “viepati limitati”

Not exactly a huge story, but I thought it was interesting, especially how it sums up Ticketmaster so well;

He was sold seats at the back of the Lower Hogan. If you know Croke Park, then these are restricted view even when you’re sitting. The upper stand comes into your vision like the sun visor on a car. It may not completely block everything, but it disrupts your view. You mostly get away with it during a match, but even then you miss some of the bigger shots.

But during a gig, people will stand up, and then you’re fucked.

But TM of course don’t say this. And I’m sure they have some bullshit excuse like, “It’s up the venue to provide an accurate seating map”.

So he sues, and TM say, “Nah…not us, you have to sue MCD”.

And the court says, “Bullshit, TM sold you the ticket, sue them”. And of course, Ticketmaster is only a trading name, not the actually company legal name.

So much obfuscation and attempts to dodge responsibility.

And then they offered him barely more than half price as compensation if he’d go away.

And in the end they never even sent someone to the SCC to represent them. It’s a pity he couldn’t be awarded compensatory damages for all the bullshit they made him go through.

Fair play to this guy for sticking it out.

Ticketmaster are the absolute fucking worst.

Big news coming in!

Be careful about getting FOMO’d in presales. If a gig has a standing option but the presale spits a seated ticket at me, I release it and try again. There is the risk you’ll miss out, but no risk you’ll be in a crap seat

I climbed the fence at Glastonbury in 2019, but security caught me and made me go back and watch Coldplay

Good on him