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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
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Total rip off
March 6, 2018

Tickets for an event bought by my daughter as a Christmas present to me, I could buy same tickets day of the event, rugby game, and she has paid just short of 180 pound for 2 X £30 tickets. Three times face value. Could understand if event was sold out but this is just ripping off those who do not have an understanding of ticket prices.

Date of experience: March 6, 2018
New Zealand
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Scam artists
November 14, 2016

Standard response to each of my queries. Paid more than 4 x the price for Dixie chick tickets in new Zealand. I will never receive them so had to buy more from legit site. Google, you need to remove them from your search engine as they are scam artists. So sad.

Date of experience: November 14, 2016
GB
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I bought three tickets via Viagogo. Tickets were selling out fast and I failed to spot all the hidden costs. Just to give you a flavor of what I am talking about, I was supposed to pay £237.45 for 3 tickets (£79.15 each), to which they added £65.98 booking fee, VAT £13.20 and "secure ticket delivery" for an additional £10.36.

I paid £326.99 in total for 3 tickets@ £79.15. I will never EVER use Viagogo again, will let everyone I deal with know about this and will spread HONEST reviews until my fingers can't tap anymore.

Date of experience: November 14, 2016
GB
1 review
4 helpful votes
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Complete Scam
June 18, 2018

Paid £177.00 for 2 tickets to see David Byrne in Manchester. At the door our tickets were scanned and had been used before. Checked with the box office and informed that this happens all the time with Viagogo. A three hour round trip, car parking charges and no concert. Absolutely furious.

Date of experience: June 18, 2018
GB
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Breaking UK law. Theft
February 22, 2017

Two tickets were £77 each. When downloaded they were face value of £45 each. But what really pisses me off is that they added £45.68 for booking fee and £6 shipping (there was no shipping). An undisclosed cost. The total came to over £200. Withholding extra charges is illegal un the UK. International action against them MUST happen. Or what is the point of having laws?.

Date of experience: February 22, 2017
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Day light robbery
February 24, 2017

Rip off merchants. I will never go near this bunch of thieving, immoral b******ds again.
To add insult to injury my tickets were (eventually) sent to a pick up point 90 miles from my home. Service doesn't get much worse than this.

Date of experience: February 24, 2017
GB
1 review
9 helpful votes
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BEWARE of making a mistake
September 27, 2015

Viagogo just do not want to know. I am 69 years old and thought concession meant just that but I mistakenly bought child tickets for tennis ATP finals, Weeks of email and automated phone calls. They were only concerned in confirming that I made the mistake but no aid or customer help at all. Just told to resell on their sight. Also I did not realise these were resale tickets already. Just people buying and selling for profit. I can ill afford to lose £122 but I can warn others to be careful and avoid this website

Date of experience: September 27, 2015
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Just received a casual email from Chloe of Viagogo telling me that the tickets they sold me are not actually available. Yes they say they'll give me a refund. Great. What they won't refund is the flights and hotels I've also booked.

So they took my money for 2 months for tickets they had no right to sell, then 2 weeks before the gig, way too late to make other arrangements, they finally come clean and admit they never had any tickets to sell.

Please stay well away from this company. Don't make an expensive mistake like I did.

Date of experience: June 24, 2017
GB
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Avoid what happened to me and many others. I bought two tickets to see the Rolling Stones in Cardiff, ticket face value £59.95. Viagogo price after adding their "fees" right at the end of the transaction in a totally underhand manner was £130. I feel such a fool, cheated, and ashamed that this can happen to anyone in this country of ours. Dreadful shameful company who bring discredit to online selling. Avoid them please.

Date of experience: June 8, 2018
Netherlands
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Deceive customers by scaring you believing that there is an extreme uncertainty about the quantity of tickets and availability.

You have to finish your order in said specific time.

Prices keep increasing

Unexpected service fees that are 50% of the ticket

Date of experience: February 26, 2019
Austria
1 review
1 helpful vote
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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?!

Date of experience: May 17, 2017
Italy
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Placed and order. They added an exorbitant servicing fee, which was not disclosed earlier. Further, they charged my account even though they were not supposed to until the tickets were purchased. Finally, no response from them, and I am going to suffer huge losses for purchasing the tickets. This site looks like a fraudulent one, and if I do not receive my refund asap, I will commence complaints with the federal trade commission in the US, and then followed by other countries.

Date of experience: June 14, 2017
Australia
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Scary
March 4, 2017

This site is very very dodgy and I will never use it again and dont recommend anyone use it. While we got into the venue we know of 5 people that night who were refused entry because the tickets had already been scanned. Pre-warned we turned up before the gates opened to be sure of getting in but even then we were anxious the whole time. Tbe booking fee was outrageous too. I reported them to the ACC who responded that they are already under investigation. Avoid!

Date of experience: March 4, 2017
Australia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Overcharged
December 19, 2016

Bought some Human Nature tickets & only after you hit the pay button do you get hit with all the fees. Which totalled about $86.00 plus could have bought tickets on another site heaps cheaper! Not a happy customer & tickets dont come until 3 days before event so what if the post is late! Should have done our homework first!

Date of experience: December 19, 2016
Arkansas
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Worst experience buying a ticket. After researching dozens of tickets on several sites, I had the misfortune to use Viagogo. I chose ticket based on arena map. Boy, was I screwed. Map was wrong, ticket is behind stage. Two emails later, it appears they have an automated customer service with generic responses. First, "yes, you received the ticket you ordered", then "if you're not happy with ticket, feel free to relist". NEVER do business with Viagogo, unless you can afford to waste your money.

Date of experience: May 22, 2019

Overview

Viagogo has a rating of 1.7 stars from 1,904 reviews, indicating that most customers are generally dissatisfied with their purchases. Reviewers dissatisfied with Viagogo most frequently mention customer service, face value and credit card. Viagogo ranks 349th among Tickets sites.

service
289
value
285
shipping
242
returns
236
quality
259
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