Ticketek says no to cheap friends
Ticketing service Ticketek has launched a social media campaign to promote new social ticket buying tool ‘Invite A Friend’.
The new service enables customers to reserve tickets next to their friends at an event, and send invitations via Facebook for their mates to purchase tickets, removing the hassle of one person having to pay for everyone’s tickets upfront.
The ‘No to cheap friends’ campaign, targeted at customers who buy tickets for friends but rarely get their money back, is being promoted via Facebook and Ticketek’s email database and mobile site.
Ticketek MD Cameron Hoy said in a press release: “This campaign is designed to resonate with our customers who experience the common frustration of the friend that never pays them back. We’ve all received the ‘I’ll fix you up for the tickets later’ texts from friends, but how often do these same friends drop off the radar after the event, along with the cash they owe you?”
“With the launch of Invite A Friend, we are giving our customers a simple solution for organising a group to go to an event, by letting them say yes to splitting the bill and no to funding their cheap friends,” he said.
great idea. have been stung by cheap friends who forget to pay many a time
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Great idea – maybe next they can not charge us to print off our own tickets?
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Already been done! http://www.springwise.com/ente.....k-friends/
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Great product idea first and foremost
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does this just mean that each time your friend prints off their tickets there is another fee involved……6 tickets = 1 fee, 3×2 tickets = 3 fees!!!!!!
very clever way to disguise a nice revenue earner
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Does the friend get charged ticketek’s extraordinarily high credit card surchrge,
do i pass on ticketek’s booking fee that gets added on to the price of the ticket and that ticketek is unable to work out how to absorb it INTO the actual ticket price to my “friend”?
Does my friend have to actually pay even though he prints out his own ticket? He doesn’t really want to use all that indonesian virgin forest paper and all that printer ink that ticketek can’t afford.
When “friends” come to my show at a ticketek venue, ticketek makes more money than i do. figure that one out.
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This is going to work well for the few hours a week when the Ticketek website is actually up and running.
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Hey ‘nice little earner’ stop expecting for free
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