Scalpers often get burned themselves, Last year, the Top Gear Festival in Sydney was a sellout. This year, the scalpers got their hands on a heap of tickets (probably got several friends to purchase as Ticketek has limits), and the show didn't sell out on either day. This is how stupid some of them are.....we'll buy some tickets and try and flog them off on ebay for a profit. We'll even auction them instead of a BIN price in case we make extra money from a bidding war. We'll let the auction run until 4 days after the entire event has finished. Then they wonder why no-one actually bid on their tickets. Some people who had auctions starting at the ticket price, still didn't get bids due to the auction finishing after the event was long gone. Are people really that stupid LOL?
If you want to get pre purchase date ticket offers, subscribe to sites like Ticketek (it's free and I don't recall ever getting spam from them, only offers). I often get emails offering pre sale tickets before they are opened to the general public. I also get messages on my Tel$tra prepaid phone with similar offers. Most don't interest me, so I post the message on my facebook for any friends that may be interested. Joining up to Ticketek and the like takes a few minutes so make sure you are a member before the tickets you want go on sale. Also make sure you are logged in BEFORE the tickets go on sale, allow 30 minutes because the minute they go on sale, the sites often crash and you can't log in. If you're already logged in, you have a better chance of beating others to it.
If the Stones isn't on for another few months, keep an eye on ebay because (genuine) people's plans change so they often sell their tickets on here. Most are happy to get their money back, so you can still get them for cost price. Also keep an eye on the classifieds in the newspaper for the same reason.
