How much would you pay for the best seat in the house?
Theatres and concert venues are struggling to stop people selling tickets illegally - often at higher prices.
The people who do this are called ticket touts - they buy up lots of cheap tickets and sell them for a higher price.
Rob and Neil discuss this dodgy business and wonder how we can avoid buying the wrong ticket.
This week's question:
According to the Guinness World Records, which singer sold the most ever tickets in one day for his 2006 World Tour? Was it:
a) Robbie Williams
b) Bob Dylan
c) Justin Timberlake
Listen to the programme to find out the answer.
Listen
Ticket touts
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Vocabulary
- ticket touts
people who buy tickets for an event in order to resell them at a higher price
- face value
the price shown on the ticket
- dodgy
dishonest, unreliable, (sometimes) illegal
- legitimately
done properly according to the rules or the law
- agent
(here) a person or company paid to sell tickets on behalf of someone else
- commission
extra payment someone gets for selling something on behalf of someone else
- transactions
buying or selling things
- venue
building where large or important events take place
- cheapskate
(informal) someone who doesn't like spending money
- inflated prices
prices that are higher than they should be
- fake
not real
- out-of-pocket
losing money in a transaction
- silver bullet
one simple solution to solve a problem
- reputable
honest, reliable and trustworthy
- void
not valid; cancelled
