Next Year is a lifetime away for a 9 year old - chances are she will have moved on to other things by the time the concert comes around.

The reason why i want to buy them now to get good seats, if i leave it close to the concert there may be none left.

On the other hand if i leave it and purchase tickets closer to the time maybe they will be heavily reduced too. ?:|

I agree with the other comments.

Too risky

too far away time-wise

too much money to spend on a 9 year old!

For way less money, if you are in a major city, you could go to a top class musical theatre production, ballet etc. that would be more memorable anyway!  At One Direction all you're going to get is a lot of screaming teenage girls drowning out the music.  The Beatles at one stage stopped playing because no-one could hear them through the screaming.

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is coming next year I think.

Mary Poppins was fantastic, my 16 year old loved it!

Have you actually checked out Ticketec - they are selling now, and as far as I can see, there are tickets available for both Sydney and Melbourne. If you don't see it on line, give them a call, as they do sometimes pre-release and then release more later, worth the call

As far as I know tickets are NOT covered by PP protection.

In all the years that I've been a boardie,I've only ever seen ONE reputable ticket seller-unfortunately I don't recall who it was but they had impeccable feedback.

JMO but no way would I buy from a private 'little' seller.I coughed up over $500 to ticketek for 2 George Michael tickets.Mind you,it will be the 1st concert that I've been to since the Eagles 'When Hell Freezes Over' tour.:8}

Ticketek tickets are all sold, just rang them and sold out for sydney 😞

give your daughter a choice . . . . . . . a 'maybe' chance to get to a concert where they probably wont hear much because of the screaming OR a $400 shopping spree for Christmas.  If you were prepared to outlay $500 you will be saving $100 if she chooses the shopping spree, and you wont need to buy Christmas presents as it will be a Christmas shopping spree.

Santa still visits our house. I think i will just see next year, i just dont want to risk it. It is alot of money if they are not legit.

I think loads of better things will come up between now and then.  For example people were raving about the Nutcracker on Ice a couple of months ago.  And for about $400 pp you can do a 4 night cruise Sydney to Sydney in the summer.  What about taking a couple friends and doing a Roar and Snore sleepover at Taronga Zoo.  There's a deal at Mogo Zoo where you can be a Keeper for a Day, they spend the day training you and you learn how to feed the lion cubs, giraffes etc.and get your photos taken handling the animals.  Not sure if there is a minimum age requirement on that one. 

The possibilities are endless.