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Australia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Parasitic scammers.
March 25, 2017

Literally the most parasitic scammers legally allowed to sell tickets.

Won't respond to questions. Overcharge obscenely.

Instantly dispute any transaction you have made with them via your credit card service. Spread the word let's shut them down.

Date of experience: March 25, 2017
Israel
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Viagogo is useless site design to rip you off, charging tickets double price, of original price, enormous commission from each side (buyer/seller), charging more than 7 euro for sending an email, all of that for no service at all. This kind of companies should not be existed, bcs they are not respecting their customers at all. It was my first and last buy indeed.

Date of experience: November 25, 2014
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Just paid £98 for a ticket that should have cost £49. FInal prices are concealed until you have completed the transaction and in no way justified, and there is no cancellation. Better off taking your chances with a tout if you're absolutely stuck!

Date of experience: May 3, 2017
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Killers Tickets
November 3, 2017

Can't believe they charged more than double the face value. Don't make it clear they are a reseller and don't show their charges up front. How do they manage to get so many tickets on the day of release? This practice should be made illegal. Unfair to true fans and is basically legal robbery. DON'T GO THERE!

Date of experience: November 3, 2017
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Money Grubbers
April 18, 2018

This company will tack on an extra 26$ at the very end of you purchase, during a 6 minute time limit, as a "service fee" for the "quality service they provide." They are just trying to get extra money out of you using psychology. There's no need to do that! They could add the price of whatever service that they charge in with the ticket instead of being shady conniving liars and fooling you into paying more than you agreed. $#*! them never using their site again don't make the same mistake. They are con artists stay away.

Date of experience: April 18, 2018
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Ripped off
February 15, 2017

Bought tickets for Peter Kay charity event thinking it was his show. Paid far more than face value this isn't to bad if money goes to charity but they then charged a booking fee of £ 60+ for tickets that should cost 28.00

Date of experience: February 15, 2017
New Zealand
1 review
3 helpful votes
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My wife bought two tickets to Elton John. Didn't realise she was dealing with Viagogo. Rang them up and they did answer their phone. Said sorry, we can not give you your money back as the 'so called seller' has been paid. What a load a $#*!. Said we could re list our tickets so someone else could get ripped off and we would get paid 8 days 'after' the concert. What a total con job. $400 down the driain!

Date of experience: May 22, 2019
Australia
1 review
3 helpful votes
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We're so devastated by this horrible experience. Went all the way to the arena. Stood in the long line in the cold. Only to find out at the security gate that someone had already used our Chris Rock tickets. I hope that a**hole dies a horrible death. It's just not right to put innocent people through this kind of devastating scam. We paid $440 for those tickets which was more than the actual ticket prices. But all sold out so we bought from viagogo without knowing our horrible fate. The worst website ever. I hope viagogo gets hacked and wiped off the face of the cyber planet.

Date of experience: June 28, 2017
Egypt
1 review
4 helpful votes
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I could not buy armin van buren's concert tickets on time, so I decided to buy it through viagogo; I paid 400$ a month ago and till now i did not receive my tickets.And when I emailed Viagogo's customer service they replied that I should be more patient and in the end of the day "they are just middle men with no authority to send a certain ticket at a certain time". So my question is why does such website have full authority in paying the second party his money while lacking all authority in guaranteeing the first party to receive his consideration in return. I would not advice anyone to book via viagogo, its unbearably terrible.

Date of experience: November 3, 2014
GB
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Absolute crooks
March 11, 2023

Absolute crooks. Avoid. Viagogo refuse to refund me for tickets to see Dionne Warwick in Newcastle from June 2022, 9 months ago. Concert was cancelled as Dionne was ill then she returned to the States. Viagogo claim the concert has been postponed but there's no evidence anywhere of this. So they won't return my money. The call centre staff barely speak comprehensible English and instruct the customer to write in the complaint. The automated reply then says the same inaccurate statement of postponement. Consider the thousands of Viagogo customers they are doing this to and you realise the enormous scale of fraudulent retention of customer's money. No-one enjoys being robbed and this dishonest company's stealing our money after purchasing in good faith.

Date of experience: March 11, 2023
Texas
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Ticket Purchase
October 18, 2022

I would never purchase tickets through this merchant. Your credit card is charged immediately and the products will not be delivered until three days before the event. That timespan can have many consequences to the buyer if items are not delivered as expected.

Date of experience: October 18, 2022
Australia
1 review
5 helpful votes
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I strongly recommend to stay away from this website. As any professional scammer they look and seem very trustworthy, the website is impressive. When you proceed through checkout you will be misled to believe you are committing to a certain amount, but just till your payment has gone through. Once payment went through the Thank You page will show you how much you were charged. In my case more than double. Now I am spending lots of time trying to cancel the transaction with my credit card.

Date of experience: March 15, 2017
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Avoid Viagogo. They'll present you with a price and then at the very last step they sneakily add an enormous surcharge on. On the bill I was presented this surcharge made the ticket almost 50% more expensive than the price presented up until that point (they'd been making a big deal of a £63 cost vs £70 others were paying for similar tickets, then charged over £90).

Date of experience: August 25, 2017
Colorado
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Euro 2020
June 1, 2021

2 weeks before start of the tournament still No refund (I have tried since January2021)... in fact tell me to re sell to a limited capacity game and possible quarantine... Oh and yes I live in the U. S so travel this year was never going to be a possibility... 1200 euros wasted VIAGOGO total crooks

Date of experience: June 1, 2021
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I have just realised that I have been charged £39.50 booking fee plus vat and shipping (it's an E ticket) which equates to nearly £50 on top of the already overpriced tickets. I have tried to contact the company however no response. I appreciate I have paid more for the ticket price as the show is nearly sold out but this is daylight robbery with all the additional charges. I am unsure who to make my complaint too as they won't respond. Has anyone else had joy getting their booking fees back?

Date of experience: February 11, 2017
Ireland
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Scam artists
July 5, 2019

Envelope arrived via UPS this morning. No tickets for Grand Prix next week in the envelope just an order document. We have been on the phone for over 2 hours trying to sort and Viagogo not helpful - now trying to recover the cost from the credit card company. Stay well away - they should be locked up!

Date of experience: July 5, 2019
GB
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Do not use please, you will get ripped off big time, they pay to be top of the search engine then have an almost non existent customer service, whose staff were rude to say the least, I have reported them to my bank as having fraudulently taking money for tickets that never appeared! Its simple just do not use this company and ready all the reviews as proof they can not be trusted just because they are on the internet! Terrible

Date of experience: July 10, 2017
Italy
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Made up prices. Thieves.
September 23, 2023

Shady scammers.
Before purchasing tickets make sure to research ticket prices as they "reserve the right to sell tickets above face value" which resulted in me unawarely spending 242% more per ticket than retail price.

Disgusting.

Date of experience: September 23, 2023
GB
1 review
7 helpful votes
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Disgusting service
December 30, 2015

Booked tickets to darts final as Christmas present, 4 days before event sent me email cancelling my tickets and even though now two weeks after I booked tickets there are more expensive tickets available on their site they won't pay any extra. Where is their ticket guarantee?

Date of experience: December 30, 2015
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Dishonest charlatans
October 19, 2018

This site is atrocious they sell you tickets above and beyond what they are worth and also claim that you will have a seat and be seated together if purchasing more than one ticket. They then send you standing tickets not long before the event and do not offer cancellations or refunds. They should be closed so they cannot rip off other customers be warned, check all the online reviews to do with these cowboys as the negative ones far out way the positives. Never again.

Date of experience: October 19, 2018

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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