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OUT A TOUT No.1 In A Series: NEEDANTICKET.NET

HOTPRESS is encouraging the real fans of music and sport to let us know who is ripping you off! Contact us on outatout@hotpress.ie or call (01) 241 1500 to tip us off. The fans must stand up and play their part in the Out A Tout campaign. The time for complaining is over. The time for action is now.

The Hot Press Newsdesk, 26 Jan 2007

Needaticket.net is run by a company called Needaticket Events Ltd., with a registered office at Main Street, Ballyroan, Portlaoise, County Laois. The company was registered in July 2006 and is run by Michael Scully from an address at The Coach Centre, Westland Row, Dublin 2.

Their office number is 676 9689 and Scully’s mobile number is (087) 9053283. Other directors of the company include James Hoade.

“We are Ireland’s leading established ticket broker,” the needaticket.net website claims. “We specialise in obtaining exclusive and ‘impossible to get’ tickets for sold out shows, concerts and sporting events. Please note that you are often purchasing tickets above face value.”

They also operate on ebay as “IRISH-TICKET-SHOP”

Currently On Offer from 'need-a-ticket'

Show Real Price Their Price % of Real Price!

Arcade Fire: €45.50 €180 400%

The Killers €52 €120 230%

Ireland vs England

[Rugby @ Croke Park]

Stand Price €80 €700 875%

Terrace €30 €400 1,333%

Cansei Der Ser Sexy [Not sold out]

General Admission €24 €60 250%



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