A Monaghan mother whose family has been through a "tough year" has been ;left disappointed after a concert ticket she bought for her son turned out to be a fake. Lorraine Teevan paid ticket site Gigsberg £360 sterling for her 20-year-old to see Coldplay in Croke Park last week. According to the website, her ticket had been transferred to Gigsberg from Ticketmaster, reassuring Lorraine who had bought tickets from Gigsberg before.
Lorraine and her daughter took their seats in the stadium but, when her son presented his tickets at the turnstile he was told the ticket had already been scanned by someone else who gained entry earlier. He was subsequently asked to step out of the queue and went home. Lorraine told this morning's Joe Finnegan Show she contacted the site she bought the ticket of while she was at the concert but has been told she must get a letter from the steward who refused her son entry before the site will consider a refund. Attempts by the Joe Finnegan Show to hold the site to account also returned no result with the site reiterating their terms and conditions.
Lorraine says she and her son were left devastated: "My son went to the gate at Croke Park, presented his ticket and was told that ticket has already been scanned, you're not getting in here," Lorraine told Northern Sound, "So,it had already been used. Your friends are all gone in and you're left outside. He had basically been told that ticket's already been used, get out of the line, off you go. There was nobody that could do anything for him. If I had been there I possibly would've made a scene but, I just felt so sorry for him because, y'know, his friends were there, he really wanted to be there and it was very upsetting."
