One Big Weekend in Dundee

[Kaydo.]

you have an exam on a sunday???

[Grandpa]

Quoting pinkymoo from 19:15, 11th May 2006
rck5 i got two tickets for the sunday but don't think i'm going to go so... if anyone makes me a good offer they might get them??!

I'd suggest you sell them on ebay....have a look at this...i think it might be a wind up, but.....

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Radio-1s-Big-Week ... dZViewItem

Jeeeezo

I wonder if it says "Not for Resale" on the tickets??????

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[orudge]

Quoting Grandpa from 23:48, 11th May 2006
I wonder if it says "Not for Resale" on the tickets??????

According to http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/bigweekend06/faqs.shtml, it does indeed.

I applied for tickets, but as with most people it seems, got nothing.

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Quoting Sid from 20:48, 11th May 2006
It's such a shame that such an event is being held under the noses of the Dundee people and very little are getting to take part.

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[Sid]

Quoting flarewearer from 00:24, 12th May 2006
THIS IS A LOCAL CONCERT FOR LOCAL PEOPLE

Quoting Sid from 20:48, 11th May 2006
It's such a shame that such an event is being held under the noses of the Dundee people and very little are getting to take part.

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Yeah, but very few local people are getting to go. I'm from Dundee, I applied with my Dundee address and I got no tickets. I've not heard from anyone in Dundee who got tickets, only people in St Andrews. So, although it's a local concert for local people, it is in fact utter cock, because very few Dundonians got tickets.

Quoting lizzie_liz from 22:16, 11th May 2006

accoridng to the Radio 1 website the majority were given to people in Dundee and in total 85% were given to scotland.

According to the website I looked at 42.5% of the tickets were sent to people in the Dundee area, Dundee area most likely encompasses an area wider than Tayside.

Check for yourself http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio1/bigweekend06/faqs.shtml

[flarewearer]

Quoting Sid from 01:44, 12th May 2006
So, although it's a local concert for local people, it is in fact utter cock, because very few Dundonians got tickets.

That wasn't actually my point, but then sarchasm rarely comes across well in pixel format. It's a national radio station, this isnt the Tay AM roadshow, why shouldnt tickets go to people from all over the country?

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[rck5]

if your asking me why i'm not going to go its cos i have an exam on the monday morning, and still have two tickets for the sunday which i can't decide what to do with..

Quoting Kaydo. from 23:19, 11th May 2006
you have an exam on a sunday???

[Thackary]

What gets me about the eBay sellers is that they got the tickets for free, are selling them on illegally (£1550!!!) and still have the audacity to charge postage on top of it.

What bastards.

[maz]

As far as I know the people selling on ebay weren't expecting nearly that much, but after a couple of VIP passes reached 300 quid someone mentioned it on the radio and people have been bidding up tickets with no intention of paying. There was one set of tickets bid up to £100000 at one point.
I am angry that people applied when they had no intention of going. It was only 10 days/2 weeks ago that you had to apply, surely you knew when your exams were by then.


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[Colleen]

Seriously, rck5, e-mail me on cc439. There is free food in this for you!

[pea]

Quoting flarewearer from 02:05, 12th May 2006

Quoting Sid from 01:44, 12th May 2006
So, although it's a local concert for local people, it is in fact utter cock, because very few Dundonians got tickets.

That wasn't actually my point, but then sarchasm rarely comes across well in pixel format. It's a national radio station, this isnt the Tay AM roadshow, why shouldnt tickets go to people from all over the country?

So why does the same not apply when there is an event in Sunderland or wherever else they put them on?
If they had kept the format of receiving tickets the same as before, i.e. queuing up for them somewhere in Dundee itself, or doing the whole "We're at a secret location, come and find us thing", it would have been much fairer.
I think it's shocking that hardly anyone from Dundee or Tayside has got them, and is it really true that the postmen stole them all?


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[Guest]

I'm from Dundee and I got tickets! But I'm guessing I was one of the luckier Dundonians.

[Kempy]

Look at the name of the person that actually paid 1550 though...

Quoting thackary from 09:26, 12th May 2006
What gets me about the eBay sellers is that they got the tickets for free, are selling them on illegally (£1550!!!) and still have the audacity to charge postage on top of it.

What bastards.

[Thackary]

Fair enough.

Kempy - why not use your Sinner username?

[flarewearer]

Quite frankly, all this is beside the point. Why would anyone actually *want* to go? (for free or otherwise)

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[Liz]

Anyone want to swap a saturday ticket for a sunday one?Pleeeease

[orudge]

Quoting flarewearer from 14:57, 12th May 2006
Quite frankly, all this is beside the point. Why would anyone actually *want* to go? (for free or otherwise)

Not everyone has quite such a "superior" taste in music as you do.

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[Sid]

Well I really wanted to go because I was planning on assassinating Jo Whiley...maybe next time.

Quoting flarewearer from 14:57, 12th May 2006
Quite frankly, all this is beside the point. Why would anyone actually *want* to go? (for free or otherwise)

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[rck5]

is it one tickect u want to swap???

Quoting Liz from 15:02, 12th May 2006
Anyone want to swap a saturday ticket for a sunday one?Pleeeease