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GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Least helpful company Ive ever encountered

Cannot speak to a real person but they will respond to your email within 24 hours even though you have a collection problem on the day.

Arranged collection of ticket. UPS says reference numbers dont exist, cant get hold of anyone at viagogo

Was supposed to get a text with a approx pick up time, still waiting and latest pick up is 5, its now 4:30.

Absolute sh*t show

Date of experience: March 16, 2018
GB
1 review
18 helpful votes
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Adele tickets
February 26, 2016

So brought 4 Adele tickets from viagogo for 1400. Received them last week and they have someone else's nam on them. So phoned up Manchester arena to be told we won't get in because it sounds like fake tickets. I am beyond angry.

Date of experience: February 26, 2016
Singapore
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Cheaters
July 19, 2017

They charge exorbitant booking fee that you can only see after clicking "confirm" to buy the tickets. And they will not allow any refund. I paid a whopping $80+ booking fee per ticket. It is ridiculous. Pls avoid at all cost unless u enjoy giving your money to cheaters.

Date of experience: July 19, 2017
GB
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Do not use
May 29, 2017

The confirmation process clearly shows a price for ticket... It is not until you enter your card details and confirm purchase that you know additional costs - added an extra £20. If known I would not have went ahead with purchase. Disappointed user.

Date of experience: May 29, 2017
GB
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Can someone from viagogo please contact me. I have purchased tickets but I am not sure if this company really exists. It has taken my money immediately but promises tickets that may never arrive. There is absolutely no way of contacting them.

Date of experience: May 30, 2017
Ohio
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Wanted to purchase Cleveland Orchestra tickets for my husband (early Fathers' Day present). Was sent Parachute at House of Blues instead. Spent about 4 hours on phone/emails with Indians of Viagogo, shorter time with Ticketmaster (the go-between), and Bank of America Visa. I might eventually get the $83.65 back. Wait, just got a call from Viagogo after sending them scathing evaluations. She says she'll try to sort it out. So much time wasted and, at 71 years of age, I have not that much time left.

Date of experience: May 8, 2019
Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Bought tickets... Thought they were great seats, accompanied by COLLECTABLE tickets. Not so! Viagogo changed the rules with in 24 hours. Feeling very ripped off and dumb! Had all these pop ups while purchasing- buy now, only few left, do you want to release your tickets?... Have been given e tickets valued a third of what I paid! Not happy!

Date of experience: November 14, 2017
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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The company advertises ticket sales but instead really say it connects buyers and sellers, an immediate get out. The computer system they use does not disclose what they will take from your account until the 'proceed' stage is clicked. Expect spurious charges, bogus VAT and you pay around 4 times the value then if you had gone to the box office. They also pretend to have tickets before they are on release. They have been summoned to answer to a UK select committee, but based in Switzerland did not turn up. In plain English they commit theft. Never use this company, ever, its cheaper to burn some dollar notes.

Date of experience: June 7, 2017
GB
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Fraudulent rip off
June 15, 2017

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Event tickets 22.50 from Alban Arena; 3 tickets cost £189 on viagogo. They did not display event face value prices; they rush you into completing the purchase with a stopwatch counting down.
Customer services do not respond.
I am embarrassed to have been fooled - con trick completed.

Date of experience: June 15, 2017
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Feel conned by this site, will never ever use it again, state one price, give you limited time to complete, process sale - add loads of extras on top, £450 + turns into £600 +.
What a bunch of cheating sharks and con artists.
My advice, stay well away.

Date of experience: February 8, 2017
Spain
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I had a terrible experience with Viagogo. I ordered tickets for football match Malaga FC, but what I received were the wrong tickets only for kids and 4 different places at the stadium, completely useless for the event I intended to attend. To make matters worse, they took my money and have refused to issue a refund, even after acknowledging their mistake. This company is untrustworthy and unreliable. Save yourself the headache and avoid Viagogo at all costs!

Date of experience: May 18, 2024
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Ordered 3 concert tickets & happy to pay over the odds for what I wanted, but at closing, charged another £90 gbp! Crooks... just read an article that said the founder is quoted as saying " let's go make a billion"! He realised there are a lot of trusting customers and he's happy to rip us off... DO NOT USE, EVER.
Authorities need to close them down before they walk away with the billion ( or two)!

Date of experience: April 2, 2018
Switzerland
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I sold tickets through it, high commission rates, they do not fully refund you even for the super-expensive shipment method they demand you to use in post and there is no human support system, only automatic copy-paste robotic emails, that answer irrelevantly to your question

Date of experience: June 19, 2016
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Positive Experience
September 22, 2017

Apart from struggling to get hold of anybody when i'd put the tickets on as paper instead of e-tickets I had a very positive experience selling my tickets through Viagogo. The event was last Thursday and the money went into my account today (8 days later). Would recommend using them x

Date of experience: September 22, 2017
Georgia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Viagogo problem
June 17, 2016

Is this text familiar to you:"Issue - Oops! There seems to be an issue with this order. No need to worry, though. Were looking into it and well let you know if we need any additional information."
I've sold nearly a three weeks ago the tickets on viagogo and still hasn't received the money and answer from their side :(

Date of experience: June 16, 2016
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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I feel absolutely outraged, I bought 2 tickets for my daughter, 'Ariana Grande 'concert and paid £90 each ticket... but, when I got the tickets the price is printed on them and the tickets cost £42.75 each! They cost me more than double of the original amount! What a rip off! Why don't they tell people upfront?! We then are free to make our decision, but I cannot accept rip deception like this! I expect to pay some fees but not that much!
I will never buy from viagogo again and will certainly not recommend to anyone. So, be careful before you go ahead with your purchase!

Date of experience: May 22, 2017
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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This is NOT a trusted site. Look at all of the reviews! There's even a petition on Facebook which is being sent to the Swiss Embassy for Victims of Viagogo.
Please buy your tickets straight from the venue or the ticket outlets the venue accepts. This is one of the worst, badly run business's I have ever come across. They must spend more money paying to be on the top links on Google than they make in sales. Disgusting way to run a business. What they fail to realise is that they're playing with peoples dreams. People who save to see their idol. Mums and dads making their child's dream come true and so on.
If they were in the UK they'd be shut down immediately, having as many bad reviews as they have

Date of experience: May 4, 2022
New Zealand
1 review
5 helpful votes
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Corrupt
March 18, 2017

Purchased our tickets $ 974.00. Back in November.
Tickets didn't arrive but their tracking system said the had and signed for. Tried to make contact over 3 weeks asking for our e-tickets but only computer generated reply.
Finally spoke to Amanda from viagogo (+44 20 3137 6080) who then said the courier tried 3 times to deliver them to us in NZ. Funny that as NZ post had no record of them at all. I bet these have been on sold.
So here we are in Melbourne without tickets.
Beware this company is a scam. We have already made contact with authorities to look into this.

Thanks for nothing Amanda. How do you sleep at night.

Date of experience: March 18, 2017
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Thus is fraud
August 17, 2017

Complete fraud. I bought tickets in belief I was buying premium seats at the Royal Albert Hall, to receive them showing the original ticket price was less than half what I had been charged. Fee if £74, plus numerous others fees and additions, for what exactly. They give you false impression tickets will sell out there and then. Complete con, no stars let alone 1

Date of experience: August 17, 2017
South Africa
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Absolute rip off!
January 1, 2017

Viagogo has no scruples selling tickets for a show several hundred percent above the true ticket price. To add insult to injury they then rip you off further by charging an enormous "booking fee" and "delivery charge" (without forewarning you about these charges!), for the privilege of emailing the hugely overpriced "tickets". The ticket arrived by email without my name on it and that's when I smelt a rat and went online to see how ripped off I was from reading other reviews! An utter disgrace that people can operate a "business" like this!

Date of experience: January 1, 2017

Overview

The company's reputation is significantly marred by a consistent pattern of customer dissatisfaction, primarily due to issues related to ticket availability, inflated pricing, and inadequate customer service. Customers frequently report receiving invalid tickets, last-minute notifications, and a lack of effective support when seeking refunds or resolution. While some users may have had positive experiences, these are overshadowed by widespread claims of fraud and poor service. The overall sentiment reflects a strong caution against using the platform, highlighting a pressing need for improved transparency and customer support to rebuild trust.

This summary is generated by AI, based on text from customer reviews

service
294
value
290
shipping
247
returns
241
quality
264
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