Comments on: Bid for a gig http://blog.pahudson.net/archives/98 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 10:32:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Neil http://blog.pahudson.net/archives/98/comment-page-1#comment-8 Neil Wed, 10 Dec 2008 18:20:40 +0000 http://blog.pahudson.net/?p=98#comment-8 Hi, Neil here from Owngig.com. Thanks very much for the post. We're working on our strategy for social networks at the minute - and you can find us already on Flickr... http://flickr.com/photos/owngig YouTube... http://uk.youtube.com/owngig And MySpace... http://www.myspace.com/owngig As for the expense, we don't see anything automatically expensive about the gigs - it's all about how many fans bid for the concert. It's more about bringing the private gig to fans that otherwise would be unable to afford it, instead of pricing people out of the regular gig. The more bid, the potentially lower the cost would be. We're also really anti-secondary ticketing - we don't even offer paper tickets and at our first gig, people were asked for photo ID. Anyway, if you have any any other questions, get in contact via the website. Hi,

Neil here from Owngig.com. Thanks very much for the post. We’re working on our strategy for social networks at the minute – and you can find us already on Flickr…

http://flickr.com/photos/owngig

YouTube…

http://uk.youtube.com/owngig

And MySpace…

http://www.myspace.com/owngig

As for the expense, we don’t see anything automatically expensive about the gigs – it’s all about how many fans bid for the concert. It’s more about bringing the private gig to fans that otherwise would be unable to afford it, instead of pricing people out of the regular gig. The more bid, the potentially lower the cost would be.

We’re also really anti-secondary ticketing – we don’t even offer paper tickets and at our first gig, people were asked for photo ID. Anyway, if you have any any other questions, get in contact via the website.

]]> By: Ian Glover http://blog.pahudson.net/archives/98/comment-page-1#comment-7 Ian Glover Wed, 10 Dec 2008 14:27:25 +0000 http://blog.pahudson.net/?p=98#comment-7 As a gig-goer this is a development that really worries me. Ebay and other auction sites have helped to propogate an atmosphere where cash rich - time poor people can overpay to buy tickets from touts at vastly inflated prices. There have been many times when I've tried to get gig/festival tickets and not been able to get through to the website or phone booking systems because of demand. Not a particular problem until, out of curiosity, I checked out ebay and within 30 minutes hundreds of tickets are for sale (by professional touts) at 2-3x the ticket price. This seems to have led to a general trend for (actual) ticket prices to rise dramatically. This development is likely to spur that on. It might be great to see your favourite band in a pub round the corner from your house, but when tickets are 500 quid each and the band can make more money doing a tour along these lines it is fairly obvious what will happen. As a gig-goer this is a development that really worries me. Ebay and other auction sites have helped to propogate an atmosphere where cash rich – time poor people can overpay to buy tickets from touts at vastly inflated prices.

There have been many times when I’ve tried to get gig/festival tickets and not been able to get through to the website or phone booking systems because of demand. Not a particular problem until, out of curiosity, I checked out ebay and within 30 minutes hundreds of tickets are for sale (by professional touts) at 2-3x the ticket price. This seems to have led to a general trend for (actual) ticket prices to rise dramatically.

This development is likely to spur that on. It might be great to see your favourite band in a pub round the corner from your house, but when tickets are 500 quid each and the band can make more money doing a tour along these lines it is fairly obvious what will happen.

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