- by Jason Gregory
- Wednesday, August 20, 2008
- Photo by: Shirlaine Forrest
A ticket agency is facing investigation after customers who bought tickets for last weekend's V Festival failed to receive their purchase.
Hundreds of music fans used SOS Master Tickets, a secondary market company, to buy weekend passes to the festival, which took place in Chelmsford and Staffordshire.
After their tickets failed to arrive a week before the festival, they were told to meet representatives of the company at both festival sites.
But the representatives failed to show, leaving crowds of people without tickets and out of pocket.
Graham Burns, chairman of the Association of Secondary Ticket Agencies, told the BBC that “the fallout has been quite spectacular."
SOS Master Tickets website is no longer online, and the company's phone lines are all dead.
The company, operates out of an address in Islington, North London, now faces investigation from Trading Standards.
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You can find extensive coverage of this years V Festival, which took place last weekend, on Gigwise by clicking the links below:
V Festival 2008 – Day One, Staffordshire – CLICK HERE
V Festival 2008 – Day One, Chelmsford – CLICK HERE
V Festival 2008 – Day Two, Staffordshire – CLICK HERE
V Festival 2008 – Day Two, Chelmsford – CLICK HERE
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