Gervais slams ticket tout 'scum'
Edinburgh tickets on sale for £100
Ricky Gervais has slammed ticket touts as ‘scum’ and urged his fans not pay their over-inflated prices.Tickets for his Science show at the Edinburgh Fringe – the first night of his tour – are on sale on eBay for £200 for a pair.
Writing on his blog, Gervais says: ‘Tickets for my Edinburgh show are changing hands for £200. Please don't buy them. The people selling them are scum.
‘I have tried to stop this happening but I can’t. I’ve tried holding tickets back for sale on the night. I've tried putting gigs on sale at the last minute so people don't have time to put them on eBay, but nothing works.
‘I’m flattered that anyone would want to see me that much but it breaks my heart that people spend their hard-earned money because of someone’s greed. On my last tour one theatre manager excitedly told me that he'd just seen someone pay a thousand pounds for two tickets right by the ticket office. I think he thought I’d be pleased. I was horrified.
‘Also if you buy them in the street you’ve got no come back if they're counterfeit. I don’t even like people having to pay a booking fee but at least that's understandable. Anyway please get a ticket but don't pay too much. That’s all I'm saying.’
Published: 14 Apr 2009
