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.
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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!
AVOID! I tried to sell a ticket to a show today. It appeared as though I had successfully listed the ticket but I received no e-mail confirmation and when I look at sales and listings for my account, both are blank. SO I tried to list again... same thing happened. The second time though, I took a screen print of the page that said my listing was successfull and whihc gave me a listing ID. If I hadn't done that, I'd have no record as I still have no e-mail from Viagogo and my sales and listings are still blank. I therefore wanted to contact them to see if the listing had been successful and to check if I had now accidentally listed the same ticket twice. I couldn't find a number of their site. I tried various number I found online. Most didn't work at all. One had an automated service and it asks you to enter the listing ID (lucky I took the screen print). I entered this and the automated service said they could not speak to me abou this by phone and that I should contact them by e-mail via their website. I've tried to use the Help Centre to contact them. I follow the steps that should lead me to being able to contact them but wierdly it just ends up at a password reset page. It seems as thought they have made it deliberately impossible to contact them. Please save yourself a tonne of hassle and do not buy or sell via this site. Total nighmare!
Tried to buy tickets, only once I'd hit commit did they show me the price was per ticket and what the fees were. No summary every shown, until you've committed to buy.
Avoid like the plague
After realising the administration fee (£50) I cancelled the page even though i didnt finally submit the transaction, i recieved an email to say i have purchased the tickets. With no option to refund I decided to resell them on said ticketing site.
Initially it states no charge for selling tickets on the website but then when I did reupload the ticket there was a small percentage deducted as well administration fee.
As I repeatedly freshed the website it was constantly changed its clever marketing tactics to get the customer to buy tickets ( i understand thats just a business tactic...)
But i have lost complete faith in this website
Very disappointed this has happened as I have essentially paid £170 just to visit a site - fingers crossed ill be able to sell the ticket! Lesson learnt, read the reviews beforehand!
Right guys I think all of us that have been ripped off should join forces and see if we can do something about these ripoff creeps with no scruples! A New Zealand consumer watchdog tv show called Fairgo have contacted me. I suggest others get in touch and tell them their story!
Bought 2 tickets for Jeff Dunham Show, row A. I knew the tickets would be slightly overcharged since it is a front row ticket and bought from a secondary party. Then I received the tickets by post and saw the actual price... £35 each ( I paid £200 each). That can't be considered as slightly overcharged, at all!
Now I know I made a mistake and it won't happen again.
Avoid viagogo!
Over priced clever web site probably paid bouble for tickets note to self don't use first site that pops up on your search Let's hope the tickets turn up
Why do you not tell customers about extra charges for buying tickets?
The ticket price was $181 then they added another $77 for booking fees
Don't trust this booking site
Nothing more to add to all the other reviews as they sum up these the theiving scammers very well! Avoid.
Traveling in Vienna from Canada. Found out last minute one of my favorite bands, Deep Purple, was playing tonight. Bought the e-ticket, walked almost an hour to get to the venue just in time. Just to find our my ticket was no good. Customer service even had my ticket on a list saying so?! What a shame. That this company has a 1 star review, problems with buyers all the time. And is allowed to still operate?!
Paid $245.83 for 2 chevelle tickets. When the ticket says they are $28.00 a piece. Never buying of this website again! Very upset and disipointed. Front toe tickets were $35 while we paid $245 and are sitting in the back.
Charged more than double price of Andre Riue tickets. Viagogo charged 271.11.
Tickets arrived at only 65 each.
Now worth it anyway at row 34!
Nevertheless, I wish I would have bought them directly, never thought at the time but will never use this scammer again.
Although I blame myself for allowing this to happen, it's still fair to warn others.
Got tickets through their site for a Metallica concert in East Rutherford, New Jersey. It was through a seller on the site, a third-party I guess you would say. Everything seemed fine until literally the moment I was there to get my tickets scanned to enter the stadium. They got scanned and I was told the tickets were "void". I went to the box office to ask what was going on and was told whoever bought the tickets (who sold them to me) their card was fradulent and the transaction cancelled. I called up Viagogo to tell them what happened and they said this happens sometimes. I now have to provide *them* documentation from the box office stating what happened in order to get a refund. Yeah! Because supposedly some a-hole decided to rip me off (and who knows if that's even the case, but why this website even allowed such a creep on to their site to sell says a lot), now *I* have to prove that I was ripped off? It's clear as day that when the tickets are scanned they come up as "void", that's all that needs to be said! But no, for this site that's not good enough. Now I have to call my credit card company that I used to buy these fake-$#*! tickets so I can dispute/cancel this transaction and get my money back from this site. Never again.
Do not use this website. Paid £160 for an event but other sites charged just over £80. It was my fault for not doing enough research and should have bought my tickets from ticketmaster. Stay as far away as you can from this scandalous website as you can and let others know about this fraudulent business as well
No help after charge you over price. First try to book tickets appears Error then try again, after you pay for 2 orders.no refund just tell you to sale one ticket
Thus site charges extremely over priced tickets fakes demand to entice consumer to move quickly and then slips huge additional fees at checkout
Bought 2 adult tickets and got sent 2 child tickets. Paid New Zealand dollars and got charged Indian rupee. Fukn homos
Was shown to pay $230, charged $65 processing fee after the fact... didn't authorize that at all. On top of that... print the tickets, show up at the concert and told they were FAKE tickets! Have to dispute with my credit card company because their customer service not only was completely useless they lied! DO NOT BUY FROM THEM
Bad form Viagogo you should be ashamed. I have yet to rate their conduct but to date they have supplied a rip off service whilst knowingly and deliberately selling adult tickets for an event then supplying child tickets instead. Luckily for Kiwi's we have great service and our local companies put right what Viagogo do wrong. I say ban their servers accessing NZ domains.
Answer: My tickets were real but I was scared the person whose name was on the ticket would turn up with id. A R600 ticket the price on the ticket which we were not told ended up being twice that. Would I use them again? NO
Answer: So frustrated surely there must be something we can do, surely this is not legal?
Answer: For is it was a total con. They showed prices in HK dollars and then charged in US dollars. We paid $4000 US dollars for two Madonna tickets. There's literally no phone number on their site and it's impossible to get in touch with customer service. Don't buy tickets here. You'll be sorry. They even charged us $500 for a service fee. Really insane!
Answer: Hi Bryan! Viagogo is a ticket marketplace that allows individuals to buy and sell tickets for live events. Once you purchase with viagogo you are covered by our guarantee: http://www.viagogo.co.uk/landingpage/1044610 Kind regards, Ana
Answer: No they don't. I will never ever make any purchase frm viagogo and I will warn you not to. They deducted my money from my back without my acknowledgement in Dec and guess what, I received the same email frm them that they will be deducting the amount from my bank again due to me not able to produce the ticket. My reason is that event organiser close down my seating section. Ended up have to go thru my bank to get the money back from them. They are the worst.
Answer: If in doubt, always try and pay by credit card so have a certain amount of protection/insurance. There's a lot of fraudulent ticket sales going on all over at the moment, so do your homework, read reviews and always use a secure method of payment if you decide to proceed.
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