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While dance music fans are now conditioned to regular online forgeries about tours and new releases, one thing that continues to burn unwitting Australian punters is a wave of Internet ticket scams that have rocked local events and robbed punters of their dollars. Already this summer dubious online ticket sales have targeted the debut of Space Ibiza on New Years Day, and now it looks as though two more festivals are wrapped up in some drama, namely the upcoming Good Vibrations and Soundwave festivals.
The latest ticketing resale appeared today on local website 1saleaday.com.au, offering users a dubious discount of nearly 25% on tickets to Good Vibes shows in Sydney and Gold Coast and Soundwave concerts in Brisbane and Sydney, both set for later this February.
Speaking out about the authenticity of the tickets on 1saleaday.com.au, Good Vibrations crew Jam Music issued a statement to ITM explaining that the tickets are “not legitimate” and would not equate to admission at any festival date.
“These tickets are not legitimate tickets,” Jam Music declared in the statement. “The ticketholder will be refused entry. You will lose your money and be disappointed on the day…Only tickets purchased through authorised sellers will be honoured to grant you entry to Good Vibrations Festival.”
The ‘sale’ of these tickets has arrived at an undoubtedly calculated time, with the figures behind the ticketing resale clearly hoping to grab festival-goers desperate to attend the festival following the announcement that tickets for the Sydney leg of the show had sold out.
UPDATE – inthemix was contacted by 1saleaday.com.au on Monday February 8th and notified that, although purchased legitimately, all tickets available for resale on their site for Good Vibrations were removed on Friday afternoon at the request of the event’s promoter, Jam Music. Any punters who purchased tickets prior to them being removed from sale had their money refunded in full.
Good Vibrations is back in 2010, and this time it’s proudly supported by inthemix. Check out our festival page for all the updates and check the dates in the links below.
Morphee says...
Whats to say that 1saleaday.com.au didnt purchase 1000 tickets for resale on its website to increase traffic and hope that people will revisit and make other purchases? Selling one product under cost price then selling 3 products for a profit is still a profit for 1saleaday.com.au
daverh says...
What's to say? Well, for starters Jam Music and Soundwave have confirmed they're fake, so, uh that pretty much puts that question to bed mate.
daverh says...
What's to say? Well, for starters Jam Music and Soundwave have confirmed they're fake, so, uh that pretty much puts that question to bed mate.
nafey m says...
Company Information: Name One Sale a Day Australia Pty Ltd A.B.N. 53 131 961 521 Address 9 Waverley Rd East Malvern Victoria 3145 Phone 03 9572 3977 Fax 03 9572 3988
libby says...
Regardless, resale of the tickets is a breach of the Ts and Cs of buying a ticket - so the promoter has a right to cancel those tickets - it's usually in the fine print of any ticket
brenly says...
weren't there tickets to summadayze and sensation being sold on this website too? i didn't even know the website existed until then. i guess if those tickets were fakes we woulda heard about it yes? and if they were real tickets... how does one buy 1000 tickets without the ticket outlets/event organisers noticing? lol. "ah... they're for friends"
walkdogz says...
this is how ticket scams should be handled, swiftly!
elektrobotic says...
daverh,libby & walkdogz - perfect comments !!!! these sort of company's only disappoint & take advantage of people!
narcism says...
friends got summadayze tix off this site and got in with no dramas
mattpolo8 says...
theres no problem with the tickets. of course the promoters are going to come out and say this cuz they dont want people getting in cheaply. the sensation, field day and summadayze tickets were all legit.
libby says...
when we spoke to fuzzy & future about the field day and summa tix they thought they must have been scalpers dumping the tickets - there were SO many on ebay that they prob wanted to try something different. but Good Vibes is sold out, so the same scenario doesn't make sense
strac says...
I've bought off this site before and never had an issue, granted it wasn't for tickets but I ordered it one day and it came the next so I don't see why they'd risk they're reputation on this. Morphee - that's a good theory, I now look at the site daily since I saw that Summadayze tickets were on it. Did anyone actually buy tickets from the site? I'd like to see how this one plays out.
Dance for me says...
I bought two tickets to field day had no dramas, got them at $150 for two..... I recall them being Pre Sale member tickets (said it on the ticket) but again that event didnt sell out so not sure. How would JAM know who purchased them at the time and which tickets are being sold on 1saleaday? ie would they be able to cancel them if in fact they cant track whihc tickets are bing resold?
houseofdysfunction says...
The statement from jam music doesn't say anything about the tickets being fake. All it says is that 1saleaday.com is not an authorized seller. So how are the guards at the entry going to know where you got your ticket from? It will still scan just like any other ticket. I wouldn't trust anything Jam Music said, they have a show to put on and lots of money to make.