Fflam fans want their money back
Monday, August 06, 2007
Music Towers spent the weekend out on the Gower near Swansea at the weekend. And although the strict rules on keeping the noise down didn't stop us from finding a story.
It would seem Fflam fans are all up in arms. With the festival being cancelled, they have the right to a full refund - but this doesn't include the booking fee, which works out at around £9 a ticket. The newspaper Evening Post quoted promoter, John Curd from Straight Music. talking of wanting to reschedule it again for next year.
He said: "What we want to do is move the event somewhere else within Swansea where people can park, camp alongside and pop back and forward to their tent, which is what people like doing. We want a boutique festival.
"We have started looking and talks are continuing."
But the newspaper goes on that unless he returns the booking fee, he may not be welcome.
Now to be fair - Straight Music did not take your money. They may have booked the show and been the name on the advert - but who took the money and the booking fee? Probably SeeTickets or Ticketmaster... and they in turn will be the company not returning the money.
Although it is Straight Music's responsibility to get the booking fee returned. The Welsh public can probably excerise more pressure then he can to the ticket firms.
I don't understand why in the day and age of the internet - that promoters are still having to use these ticketing companies.