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| AC/DC: Good News and Ticket Corner deny guilt - Accused of Holding Back Tickets for Swiss Secondary Market |
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The website states: "An impressive contingent of tickets are not being sold to the official channels in order to create a market for more expensive secondary tickets", said Sara Stalder, Managing Director of SKS (Swiss Customer Protection). According to Good News and Ticketcorner this accusation is 'more than groundless' and is simply trying to justify their failure to police the secondary market. The activities of the black marketeers who offered some tickets even before ticket sales started on the internet at exorbitant prices are not in line with the terms and conditions of companies as Good News and Ticketcorner. Having a quick look at ricardo.ch (where tickets are offered at extremely high prices) for example shows that it doesn’t work out for many black marketeers."Buy Now Deals” for 400 to 600 Swiss Francs (270 up to more than 400 euros per ticket) – which are three to five times the cost price – are impossible to sell and also the special offers are in most cases 50-100% overpriced. The percentage of the 40,500 tickets that will be black-listed is vanishingly small," according to spokesman Marc Reinhardt Good News of the SDA (Swiss News Agency). He estimates, in the case of the AC/DC concert in Bern, it is merely a few hundred tickets... or about one percent. Reinhardt is also aware of sites that offer Good-News-Tickets at exorbitant prices from the start of the sales cycle, although the corresponding concerts are not sold out or not even on sale yet. In these cases, it has not worked work. Related Articles: Online ticket retailer Seatwave beats postal strike through HMV partnership Seatwave and UK music retailer, HMV, have joined up with Seatwave in launching an in-store music ticket box office. The partnership will allow customers to buy and sell tickets in HMV right up to the day of the event. Seatwave will also launch an online ticket exchange for HMV.
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Swiss primary ticket companies, Good News and Ticket Corner defended themselves this week against accusations that they supported the black market by selling AC/DC tickets for profit. Both companies have take-down orders for the Swiss Consumer Protection organization in a lawyer's warning to remove the accusations from their website. 