Scalpers Get To Splendour Tickets As Punters Miss Out

As hundreds take to social media to complain about missing out on tickets for this year's Splendour In The Grass, the internet has been flooded with tickets being scalped at inflated prices on online selling sites, most notably Gumtree.

While there are a number being offered at cost price, there are also plenty going for well above the rate at which they were sold this morning.

Tickets were $359 for three days, $147 for a single day and $105 for camping.

Luke is selling his for $400; assuming it's a three day ticket that leaves him with a pissweak $41 profit. But then again, that's assuming he actually has a ticket.

This unnamed Bondi seller is looking for a little more cream off the top of their ticket, looking for $450 which will score them almost a hundred bucks.

Then there are the sneaky types like Jay. They try and get under the radar with a seemingly innocent sale price of $360, but stipulates in their listing that the best offer will win the ticket. How high will the price be driven?

It gets worse though. Much worse.

Lorna wants $700 but is willing to take offers. Apparently “Offers are high and crazy to be quick!” which doesn't make sense, but we think she's saying that there's already plenty of interest in the pass – even though she is asking for almost double what she paid for it just a couple of hours ago.

Someone called Matlock accidentally bought too many tickets! Oops! Might as well score a lazy $200 for your mistake though, right? I mean, it's only fair.

“Come at me” says Tim, who's selling a three day ticket with camping. But don't come at him unless you're packing some serious coin, because he wants $700 for the ticket. Good on ya, bro.

Bridget is taking the piss. It's as simple as that. Anyone who's willing to pay $536 extra to a stranger on the internet needs help, here's hoping she doesn't get the money.

What's important to note is that there is little to no buyer protection from scalpers on sites like Gumtree – to be frank, there's a chance that these people don't even have tickets to the event to begin with and have no intention of sending you anything after you transfer your money to them.

Maybe they will send you tickets; but that doesn't mean they are legit. Counterfeit tickets are easily identifiable by festival security and you won't be let in with one, no matter how much you paid.

You might think that's not going to happen to you, plenty have felt the same way.

Also, Splendour requires your full name and date of birth at the time the ticket is purchased. These are then matched to photo ID that must be presented when entering the festival.

We're all for our readers doing whatever they want, but today we're happy to assertively say this: don't buy scalped tickets.

And we're not the only ones who think that way...

@houseofhan You CANNOT sell #SITG tix!

— SplendourintheGrass (@SITG) May 2, 2013