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Mark Knopfler Web Site; The Latest
Topic Started: Tuesday, 21. March 2017, 11:28 (96 Views)
suprlinda
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I see they put up a new post yesterday called FanFair Alliance Guide. We have seen how Mark decries ticket scalpers and others that raise ticket prices beyond what most of us can easily pay. Anyway, there is a new online guide about buying tickets that may be worth the download.

Here is the article, but you have to download the guide from his site.

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FanFair Alliance Guide
Monday, March 20, 2017

Ever since the earliest days of Dire Straits, Mark has always tried to ensure that his tickets were fairly priced and ended up in the hands of genuine fans, rather than being scalped, touted or appearing on the secondary market. Over the last fifteen years the best seats in the house for a Mark Knopfler show have almost been exclusively accessed by his most ardent fans who have paid a reasonable price for their tickets.

Any artist who chooses to try and avoid the secondary market can do so. It involves time, effort and cooperation from promoters and venues but it can be done. It also involves the artist not being seduced by the additional cash that will be offered by accessing the secondary ticketing market.

FanFair Alliance has today published a new online guide offering audiences Ten Tips to successfully navigate the ticket buying process, and to reduce the risk of being ripped off by touts. This includes key information about authorised ticket sellers, about the importance of research – do not trust search engine results! – and greater awareness of the marketing practices employed by the so-called secondary ticketing websites.

The FanFair Alliance Guide offers common sense advice to ticket buyers and the more widely it is adopted, the better it will be for fans and performers. Nobody wants the front ten rows of their event to be full of super rich consumers who may or may not actually be into the music as opposed to just attending the event – MK

Download your copy of the guide here

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Yes, it seems Mark has joined up with other high profile artists, like Ed Sheeran about this issue, and it is something I have had an issue with. Earlier this year I tried to get tickets for my wife and I to see Phil Collins at the Royal Albert Hall, Phil being a favourite of hers, and I like his songs too, they were due on sale at 9am, and I was ready at 8:50, so at 8:59 I started to try and buy tickets, I kept refreshing my screen, and just after 9am it said they had all sold out!!!!!! really? so I tried another date, they were sold out, another day, same response. So, I could not get any tickets, this situation is really annoying, I hope the government steps in to resolve this for the normal paying general public.
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There should just be a simple rule and which could be applied for everyone with easy (and no exception) - an ID could get ONLY one ticket!

And it would be easy controling it, something like a voucher.
If there would be two or more tickets under the same name (ID) it would be shown imidietally.
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