I really need to vent my anger over this, so sorry if i bore anyone!
I entered the ballot for Paul Mccartney tickets at the Liverpool sound last October; because the tickets were held by the Liverpool Culture Company (or something like that) rather than say, Ticketmaster, seats weren't designated at the time of purchase.. you just gave your card details, money was debited, and you were informed that tickets would be sent to you as soon as they are available.
Now, I bought two "premium seats" which at the time, were GUARANTEED (it even said this on the site) to be near in the lower centenary stand at Anfield. However, my tickets came in the post on Thursday, and they're in the Kop... the opposite end of the ground to the stage (Anfield Road end).
I paid 90 quid a ticket, so I was a bit annoyed. I phoned seetickets who expained that they were still premium tickets, because they were "low down" in the kop. I explained the guaranteed lower centenary thing to them, which they denied, and told them that tickets at the other end of the stadium aren't very premium in my opinion.
Anyway, as these companies can do to you, I went away doubting mysellf. Surely I couldn't have imagined the seats were guaranteed to be in the other stand? But low and behold, I found an original seating map, which described the Kop as "normal seating", and indeed the lower cent as premium. To make things even worse, a mate of mine has just bought tickets last week for 35 quid each, in the block next to mine in the kop!!!!
So I've just phoned back this morning, and got a refund. Once again, as with anything involving Liverpool council, they've cocked it up, and tried to rip people off. My thinking is, as there's been no specific seats designated until now, they've got everybodys money, then sold off all the better seats to people who've bought into the 250 quid corporate packages, which they've been advertising for ages, and then just lumped people like myself into anywhere they can get them, slapped the dearer price on the ticket, and hoped nobody would remember which area their seats were supposed to have been in because it was so long ago. I bet the people responsible for all this are in good bloody seats, probably on the stage, them and all their mates.
So yeh, I'm quite annoyed, haha. I really wanted to see McCartney, but I'm not paying 50 quid more than other people to sit in the same place, when I entered a ballot for mine rather than just deciding I wanted a ticket at the last minute, and that's not to mention them taking money off me for one area, then moving me somewhere else and having the cheek to deny it. It's a matter of principle really. Why is it that the ordinary fans ALWAYS get ripped off????
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