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wrote to my MP and to trading standards today to urge them to stop this internet fraud urge all others affected to do the same
I bought two tickets for Osmonds 50th anniversary as a birthday present for my Mum, the show is on 31st May, my tickets arrived yesterday, I must say I was a bit worried after seeing this company on Watchdog, I wouldn't use them again as I think I was lucky this time but on this occasion (apart from paying over the odds for a ticket)I had no problems at all.
I only stumbled upon this website by chance and cannot beleive the amount of people that have fallen victim to this "Company" like i did. I purchased 4 McFly tickets last year, and surprise surprise the tickets never arrived. I e-mailed, faxed letters and telephoned, evetually i did get a call back, the day before the concert stating that my tickets would be with me in 24 hours. Within a day a package did arrive, which contained 2 tickets and a McFly CD, which were bought from e-bay. I complained to my card issuer who instructed me to make a "Visa dispute" and after a little battle with the London Ticket Shop, i got my money back. Good Luck.
please can someone help me!!!! i paid £311 for 2 tickets to see neil diamond in june. i cannot get hold of the liquidation company and my bank wont help me because i paid by debit card. does anyone know what i can do to get my money back, this is the 1st time this has ever happened to me online. many thanks
"On 5 February 2008 the Official Receiver was appointed as Provisional Liquidator of the above companies,[LTS] following the presentation of Winding Up petitions by the Secretary of State for The Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform, on the grounds of public interest.
Customers of the Companies that are owed money or are expecting to receive Tickets are advised to click here http://www.insolvency.gov.uk/compulsoryliquidation/lts.htm for further information."
Great news! Well done to everyone who used this site and complained.
Well its 8.45pm and I should now be rocking on down at Nottingham Ice Arena with Linkin Park. Booked my tickets on 11th November 2007, through the above company, had a confirmation to say that my transaction had been successful. Think what they actually meant that they had successfully persuaded me out of £142.84 and had no intention of sending any tickets out.
So I sat back and excitedly waited for the 3-5 days before the concert when my tickets would arrive. Printed some maps off google, got the sat nav charged and ready to go and where am ? NOT AT THE BLOODY CONCERT I'M NOT! sat right here in front of my computer miserable as sin.
I tried contacting the company by email and various telephone numbers off the web, no answer, nothing.
This is the first and hopefully the last time this has ever happened to me. I have emailed Watchdog as one of the other writers suggested, I hope they get exposed, so that other folks dont get ripped off like we have.
Another one to add to the list!!. I have booked tickets for Strictly Come Dancing on Friday 25th January, Ringside supertickets. I still have not received my tickets. After 2 emails sent which were not replied too and 1 telephone conversation with "Sam" (They cant give out surnames as its company policy!!!)"Sam" assure me that my tickets will be issued to me on the day of the event or I will get a full refund?????? I then called Wembely Arena to find out if these tickets are issued to "The London Ticket Shop" and was told that they have a number of calls and emails regarding this company and advise for the future was DONT use them. So I called the Hungry office again spoke to Zac, I told him that I have looked on a number of forums and all comments were bad and nobody had recieved there tickets or they have been sent on some wild goose chase to get them. He told me the same as "Sam" "people are only going to write bad comments never good ones, we deal with thousands of people a day, if I looked on the Tesco's forums I would only see bad comments on there but I would still shop in there" what this has got to do with my tickets I shall never know. So I looked at Seetickets and other ticket vendore forums and I see no bad comments at all.
LONDON TICKET SHOP are a load of theives and I dont know how these people are getting away with it, by the looks of things they have been doing this for a number of years now.
The only hope I have got is that I paid with a credit card so I should get my money back but Im extremally disapointed that im not going to see this event.
DONT BUY TICKETS FROM THESE PEOPLE- I WILL DO AS MUCH AS I CAN TO STOP THEM.
NEW TO YOU ALL! I posted a comment on here back in Nov with a similar story to all you guys. I also wrote to watchdog and guess what!!! Watch Dog called me yesterday as they are now investigating this 'company'. Please all of you, email watchdog with your story and leave them your contact details. Lets expose them for who they really are!!!! Zoe
i bought 14 spice girl tkts o2 arena for jan 16th 2008, hadn't received them on mon 14th jan started to worry called them, emailed several times, got a casual response they'll get there before we need them , b ut no show, then got a messgae on mobile tried to call it back the mailbox was full and not answering calls so really worried now, got a call they wanted to meet me at the o2 before the concert to give tkts, i simply didn't feel confident that would happen so i had go go up to oxford street to collect shabby note on door "be back in 5 mins" someone did come back when i opened tkts they were dotted all over the place and certainly not in the block i booked, and certainly not all together i am totally disgusted with this service SOMEONE WITH A BIT OF CLOUT NEEDS TO EXPOSE THESE PEOPLE FOR THE feraudsters THEY ARE !!!! i just hope we can actually see them tonight otherwise i'm going to have some very upset teenagers to deal with.
Same story as everyone else. Unfortunately I got "done" twice as bought tickets through this company at the same time. My credit card company are taking their sweet time in refunding. They provided the tickets on the actual day, just hours before the performance, but they were not the seats bought. The first ones for Michael Buble I collected from Oxford Street. I did not see Michael Buble, as the seats were in the rafters and we had a very very restricted view. I had originally purchased tickets for row 5 from the front and paid enough for it. The second was yesterday when I had the tickets personally delivered on tjhe night 2.5 hours before the show ! Again, not the seats I had purchased. I have written to Nadine Simpson at the BBC as requested on this Blagger and also written to the Met Police plus the SFO. This company must be closed down.
I have just found this site and have read with dismay the accounts of other disaappointed and frustrated people. We paid well over face value for Springsteen tickets for December. The money was taken several months ago. I had to send several e mails to chase this company and the mobile number voicemail was full of other messages.
I eventually spoke to the London "agent" Alex, less than two days before the concert, who casually informed me that the tickets had been oversold and that ours would not be sent to us. Bitterly disappointing and more so as one of the tickets was a christmas/birthday gift for a close friend. I am now waiting for a refund and am not at all optimistic about this happening, having read the entries below and having already waited 22 days. I have been advised to contact the office of fair trading in writing and will also contact Watchdog. I have read a couple of positive feedback entries but they are greatly outnumbered by the stories of other people and the imapct on families and finances is considerable. I will let you know if i get my refund.
Have you been ripped off? If so please act. Please share your story. Write to the paper like we have. we need to know how many of us are out there so we can help each other and prevent others suffering in the way that we have.
Back in February I, like everyone else wanting to go to see Take That, was frantically trying to buy tickets.
My husband was trying various websites at work during his lunch hours, I was trying to get through to various places by phone, my friends were trying in the internet as well.....
Like so many, we couldn't get through to anywhere. The sheer volume of traffic caused by so many fans wanting tickets meant that a website or phone connection to somewhere that still had them was seemingly just a matter of luck, of which there didn't seem to be a lot about.
Eventually, one of my friends got through to somewhere that had tickets. a website. It looked legitimate. www.londonticketshop.co.uk
I paid for five tickets for the 10th December Take That concert at the M.E.N. Reasonable seats, block 207, at the London Ticket Shop website advertised price of £65 each, plus fees. A total of £395. I paid by debit card. Expensive, I thought, but by the way the prices were going on Ebay, it could be a lot worse. My daughter & her three friends all chipped in and we split the cost equally.
An e-mail confirmation followed, confirming the purchase & giving an order ID number. Good, I thought. Everything looks legitimate. All I have to do is wait for the tickets. Well, with just a couple of weeks or so to go I still had no tickets.
So I consulted www.londonticketshop.co.uk I was surprised to find that there was only one phone number and one address, both Hungarian, despite the site address ending in .co.uk. Of course, I should have seen this at the time of ordering the tickets, but, like so many others, in my haste, all I could think about was getting tickets, any tickets, to see Take That. My husband sent London Ticket Shop e-mails on my behalf & I called Hungary a few times. The line was almost always busy, but I got through eventually.
Yes they said, my tickets would be with me in time.
Three days before the concert my husband started e-mailing London Ticket shop several times a day. In the end, he told them that we would go to the UK press, the BBC, the Office of Fair Trading and several European E Trade organisations if we didn't get the tickets. We set them a deadline & stated we would act on the morning after the concert, if there were no tickets forthcoming.
On 8th December we had a phone call from Hungary. They were sorry. Our tickets were not all together. We could have them, but they would deliver them to the M.E.N. & meet us there. Alternatively, they said, we could have an upgrade to better seats, with all 5 of us together, for the 19th December M.E.N. Take That Concert. My husband asked them if they physically had the tickets to offer, The reluctantly said no, but assured us that they would have them delivered to us by 3 days before the concert. My husband reminded them of the upset they had caused & verbally reminded them that we would still take action in the manner we had described to them, if the re-arranged tickets failed to arrive. I asked the other girls if they wanted to re-arrange & the majority decision was yes, so we accepted the offer. My husband e-mailed Hungary to accept their offer, clearly reminding them what it was.
With 48 hours to go until the concert on the 19th, we still had no tickets. My husband had been doing some searching on the web and had found several review sites, all slamming London Ticket Shop for being con men. So many experiences similar to ours. I wish we had seen those reviews beforehand, but I thank them all for trying. My Husband sent a blistering e-mail, giving London Ticket Shop until the morning of the concert to deliver the tickets, as re-arranged, or we would start contacting the UK press and the various other organisations, as we had promised.. They were then warned via e-mail not to ignore us. At no time did we ever get a reply to any of our e-mails, not even to those sent high priority, read receipt requested. I strongly suspect now, that our e-mails were probably deleted along with countless others.
With just over 24 hours to go until the concert, my tickets arrived. But imagine my horror and frustration when I opened them...
Not the £65 tickets we had paid for, not some slightly less, not some in better than average or good seats. We had been sent five £25 tickets, in other people's names, for block 216, rows M & N Restricted view. My husband looked on the seating plan for the M.E.N. We were up high, way back, and on the right, behind the stage. Is this what these Hungarians consider to be 'upgraded' tickets?
I frantically called my daughter & she called the other girls. I didn't want to go, I felt sick. Awful. So bitterly disappointed, and guilty, for in our group of five there were two teenage girls and a single mum. Their money was precious. I felt responsible. The girls however, all wanted to go, regardless. Well, all I can say is that they were bitterly disappointed. No view, except on a rare occasion when the boys went out amongst the crowd, a fire, the concert started late, and it was cut short.
I don't know how we stand, having used the tickets, but we would like any help that the press can give in publicising this companies activities. It seems, from other peoples experiences, to be widespread. Standing nearby at the M.E.N. were several girls who also felt they had been ripped off by London Ticket Shop, just like us.
Will the newspapers back us in our attempt to stop this? Could all those who have suffered like us be encouraged to write/e-mail in, so that their accounts could be published? Too many hard working people, people without a lot of money in the first place, are seemingly being parted from large sums of money, with far less than they hoped for in return. These people need to be stopped. Compensation - unlikely, I know, but it would be a bonus. The main thing is, to stop them, before anyone else gets taken to the cleaners.
Wish I had seen this site earlier - paid a lot of money for 6 tickets for Bruce Springsteen at 02 Dome tomorrow - nothing arrived and after days of e-mails - which they never replied to got a phone call this evening to say they have problesm with their suppliers and that there might be some tickets if I can get to a depot in Oxford St!!!!!!!!!! Completely gutted/furious and by the look of it totally ripped off...do not use this shower.
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I only stumbled upon this website by chance and cannot beleive the amount of people that have fallen victim to this "Company" like i did. I purchased 4 McFly tickets last year, and surprise surprise the tickets never arrived. I e-mailed, faxed letters and telephoned, evetually i did get a call back, the day before the concert stating that my tickets would be with me in 24 hours. Within a day a package did arrive, which contained 2 tickets and a McFly CD, which were bought from e-bay. I complained to my card issuer who instructed me to make a "Visa dispute" and after a little battle with the London Ticket Shop, i got my money back. Good Luck.
Customers of the Companies that are owed money or are expecting to receive Tickets are advised to click here http://www.insolvency.gov.uk/compulsoryliquidation/lts.htm for further information."
Great news! Well done to everyone who used this site and complained.
So I sat back and excitedly waited for the 3-5 days before the concert when my tickets would arrive. Printed some maps off google, got the sat nav charged and ready to go and where am ? NOT AT THE BLOODY CONCERT I'M NOT! sat right here in front of my computer miserable as sin.
I tried contacting the company by email and various telephone numbers off the web, no answer, nothing.
This is the first and hopefully the last time this has ever happened to me. I have emailed Watchdog as one of the other writers suggested, I hope they get exposed, so that other folks dont get ripped off like we have.
LONDON TICKET SHOP are a load of theives and I dont know how these people are getting away with it, by the looks of things they have been doing this for a number of years now.
The only hope I have got is that I paid with a credit card so I should get my money back but Im extremally disapointed that im not going to see this event.
DONT BUY TICKETS FROM THESE PEOPLE- I WILL DO AS MUCH AS I CAN TO STOP THEM.
I eventually spoke to the London "agent" Alex, less than two days before the concert, who casually informed me that the tickets had been oversold and that ours would not be sent to us. Bitterly disappointing and more so as one of the tickets was a christmas/birthday gift for a close friend. I am now waiting for a refund and am not at all optimistic about this happening, having read the entries below and having already waited 22 days. I have been advised to contact the office of fair trading in writing and will also contact Watchdog. I have read a couple of positive feedback entries but they are greatly outnumbered by the stories of other people and the imapct on families and finances is considerable. I will let you know if i get my refund.
Have you been ripped off? If so please act. Please share your story. Write to the paper like we have. we need to know how many of us are out there so we can help each other and prevent others suffering in the way that we have.
Back in February I, like everyone else wanting to go to see Take That, was frantically trying to buy tickets.
My husband was trying various websites at work during his lunch hours, I was trying to get through to various places by phone, my friends were trying in the internet as well.....
Like so many, we couldn't get through to anywhere. The sheer volume of traffic caused by so many fans wanting tickets meant that a website or phone connection to somewhere that still had them was seemingly just a matter of luck, of which there didn't seem to be a lot about.
Eventually, one of my friends got through to somewhere that had tickets. a website. It looked legitimate. www.londonticketshop.co.uk
I paid for five tickets for the 10th December Take That concert at the M.E.N. Reasonable seats, block 207, at the London Ticket Shop website advertised price of £65 each, plus fees. A total of £395. I paid by debit card. Expensive, I thought, but by the way the prices were going on Ebay, it could be a lot worse. My daughter & her three friends all chipped in and we split the cost equally.
An e-mail confirmation followed, confirming the purchase & giving an order ID number. Good, I thought. Everything looks legitimate. All I have to do is wait for the tickets. Well, with just a couple of weeks or so to go I still had no tickets.
So I consulted www.londonticketshop.co.uk I was surprised to find that there was only one phone number and one address, both Hungarian, despite the site address ending in .co.uk. Of course, I should have seen this at the time of ordering the tickets, but, like so many others, in my haste, all I could think about was getting tickets, any tickets, to see Take That. My husband sent London Ticket Shop e-mails on my behalf & I called Hungary a few times. The line was almost always busy, but I got through eventually.
Yes they said, my tickets would be with me in time.
Three days before the concert my husband started e-mailing London Ticket shop several times a day. In the end, he told them that we would go to the UK press, the BBC, the Office of Fair Trading and several European E Trade organisations if we didn't get the tickets. We set them a deadline & stated we would act on the morning after the concert, if there were no tickets forthcoming.
On 8th December we had a phone call from Hungary. They were sorry. Our tickets were not all together. We could have them, but they would deliver them to the M.E.N. & meet us there. Alternatively, they said, we could have an upgrade to better seats, with all 5 of us together, for the 19th December M.E.N. Take That Concert. My husband asked them if they physically had the tickets to offer, The reluctantly said no, but assured us that they would have them delivered to us by 3 days before the concert. My husband reminded them of the upset they had caused & verbally reminded them that we would still take action in the manner we had described to them, if the re-arranged tickets failed to arrive. I asked the other girls if they wanted to re-arrange & the majority decision was yes, so we accepted the offer. My husband e-mailed Hungary to accept their offer, clearly reminding them what it was.
With 48 hours to go until the concert on the 19th, we still had no tickets. My husband had been doing some searching on the web and had found several review sites, all slamming London Ticket Shop for being con men. So many experiences similar to ours. I wish we had seen those reviews beforehand, but I thank them all for trying. My Husband sent a blistering e-mail, giving London Ticket Shop until the morning of the concert to deliver the tickets, as re-arranged, or we would start contacting the UK press and the various other organisations, as we had promised.. They were then warned via e-mail not to ignore us. At no time did we ever get a reply to any of our e-mails, not even to those sent high priority, read receipt requested. I strongly suspect now, that our e-mails were probably deleted along with countless others.
With just over 24 hours to go until the concert, my tickets arrived. But imagine my horror and frustration when I opened them...
Not the £65 tickets we had paid for, not some slightly less, not some in better than average or good seats. We had been sent five £25 tickets, in other people's names, for block 216, rows M & N Restricted view. My husband looked on the seating plan for the M.E.N. We were up high, way back, and on the right, behind the stage. Is this what these Hungarians consider to be 'upgraded' tickets?
I frantically called my daughter & she called the other girls. I didn't want to go, I felt sick. Awful. So bitterly disappointed, and guilty, for in our group of five there were two teenage girls and a single mum. Their money was precious. I felt responsible. The girls however, all wanted to go, regardless. Well, all I can say is that they were bitterly disappointed. No view, except on a rare occasion when the boys went out amongst the crowd, a fire, the concert started late, and it was cut short.
I don't know how we stand, having used the tickets, but we would like any help that the press can give in publicising this companies activities. It seems, from other peoples experiences, to be widespread. Standing nearby at the M.E.N. were several girls who also felt they had been ripped off by London Ticket Shop, just like us.
Will the newspapers back us in our attempt to stop this? Could all those who have suffered like us be encouraged to write/e-mail in, so that their accounts could be published? Too many hard working people, people without a lot of money in the first place, are seemingly being parted from large sums of money, with far less than they hoped for in return. These people need to be stopped. Compensation - unlikely, I know, but it would be a bonus. The main thing is, to stop them, before anyone else gets taken to the cleaners.
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