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Ticket revolution set to drive touts off the Edge at Fringe



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FRINGE Festival organisers are planning a paperless ticketing system in a bid to beat the touts.
Tickall, an online membership based system, is reportedly being used to sell tickets for the Edge music festival, which has replaced T on the Fringe.

Inspired by social networking sites such as Facebook and Myspace, it requires an email to set up and a picture to use, which means that only people who have bought the tickets on the site should be able to use them, wiping out any potential for ticket touts.

If it is successful it could be rolled out to all Fringe events in future years.

Fans will be able to discuss forthcoming events on the site and will also get priority when it comes to buying tickets for popular shows.

Festival organisers have struggled with ticketing problems this year after a new £335,000 computerised booking system brought chaos to the box office.

Tickets were supposed to go on sale in early June, but almost as soon as the box office, telesales and online booking systems were booted-up, the system crashed.

Face-to-face bookings ground to halt – with some transactions taking up to two hours to process.





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  • Last Updated: 17 July 2008 10:24 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

TheColourOfUpsideDown,

17/07/2008 13:18:07
Normal paper tIckets for the edge shows are available from all the usual outlets so I don't see how this will stop touting at all. Sounds like a gimmick to lure the bebo generation.
2

Noods,

17/07/2008 13:22:41
Agreed. I got my Edge tickets through Ticketmaster and they were posted out at the beginning of this month.
3

Alternative (High-Octane) Fuel Head,

Edinburgh 17/07/2008 13:31:59
"it requires an email to set up"

Great, so if you don't have an email account, you can't go to the fringe shows. Brilliant idea. Whoever dreamed this up should get the CJ award for daft, unworkable business practice.

Why is there this constant war on entrepreneurs who have the sense to realise that there is a demand for tickets priced above their face value? These people should be congratulated, not reviled.
4

go boil ur heid,

17/07/2008 14:27:02
someone tell me how i can shove a £20 note down the phone line. not everyone has a credit card or even a bank account it would be really nice to have someone with an inkling of intelligence in business nowadays.
5

Chip Stencil II,

17/07/2008 14:36:43
3&4 - If you don't have a bank account or an email address then you don't deserve tickets. Idiots.
6

A Friend of Fernando Poo,

17/07/2008 16:24:17
Really, ticket touts must be the last minority it's OK to discriminate against. These people should be ashamed.
7

alex paterson,

edinburgh 17/07/2008 16:28:11
Ticket touts,bah,to the tower with them.

 

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