Ticketpoint returneaza banii pe biletele BRA

fram la 15.04.2009 00:00 0

imi pare rau ca trebuie sa spun asta: mare rusine! nu stiu cui sa ma adresez. .dar mare de tot. o speranta am avut.. si desi speranta moare ultima.. se pare ca am ajuns la sfarsit. imi doream sa-i vad. doar atat! raspunde

guido la 15.04.2009 00:00 0

So , what happened exactly ? Since the second part of last year (2008) Emagic was in competition with another promoter ( a real one !) to bring AC/DC to Romania. We entertain very close relationships with the bands exclusive agent (C.A.A.) , which is also the agency behind STING (Sala Palatului - Feb '09), SANTANA (B'Estfest headliner on July 4) , DURAN DURAN, ALANIS MORISETTE, etc.., Final news on AC/DC was : No show in Romania in 2009 because the band does not see Parc Izvor (the only place where we saw such a show possible) as suitable at this stage. End of story. Pity. Hopefully we get a propper stadium in 2010 and we can try again. On April 5, announcement of Bucharest Rock Arena (BRA). Made by PLAYCOOL ! PLAYCOOL ? Let's check the site. Hmm..doesn't look like much... You can vote for PINK FLOYD ? U2 ? AC/DC ? Haha... These guys... Funny... Most of the acts on the list are either NOT touring, NO longer existing , NOT playing festivals, NOT touring in that period, etc...Late april 1 joke, no doubt. Press release signed by Erhan Douhan. Let's check who this is on google. Nothing comes up. Let's check Playcool on google. Again nothing. Let's call some friends in the business in Israel. Who ? Nobody ever heard of Mr. Douhan. Okay... it's a (bad) joke. Clear. But why is the romanian press not asking themselves all of the above questions ? Shouldn't some journalistic alarmbells start ringing ? Did any journalist call us to find out what we know about it ? Nope. Okay, whatever. April 6... the journalists start 'telling us' ... it's U2, it's AC/DC .. AC/DC is 100% sure. Guns & Roses also ! Hmmmm.. Okay, better be safe than sorry. I e-mail AC/DC's agent. Immediate e-mail back : '100% not true. Try to find out more. We'll deal with it.' Okay, we gather all the info we can. Find out that PLAYCOOL SRL was set up on March 16, 2009 , has one shareholder and a founding capital of 200 Lei. Give all the info to AC/DC's agent. April 7, I leave for Belgium to get together with my family to celebrate Catholic Easter. Get home late on April 12. News! AC/DC officialy announced ! City full of posters ! Tickets selling like crazy ! I again inform the agent of AC/DC. Playcool chose their moment to 'run' their fraud well. They announced and started selling tickets in the catholic easter weekend when everybody in the west (agent, band, management, it-people, website hosts,...) is on holiday and not too much can be done from their end. I try to call Cristi Busuioc (One Events) to warn him (as I do believe that HE is innocent and is just being used by 'PlayCool'). He's in a meeting. I send him an sms to call me back after the meeting. He forgets. I call the people from TICKETPOINT. I warn them. I tell them NOT to pay any more ticketing money to PlayCool as I have solid information that this is a well prepared hoax to 'take the money and run'. TICKETPOINT says they will follow my advice. Luckily they did ! They promised me that all ticket buyers will get their money back! Great ! April 14 (yesterday), Cristi Busuioc gets in touch with CAA and finds out for himself that AC/DC has no intention to play any festival (or other show) in Romania this year. He's shocked. The 'official pressrelease' by PlayCool 'i.e. the festival has been 'amanat'' is just another lie. There will be no Bucharest Rock Arena organised by PlayCool ! Cristi makes it very clear in an official statement on Realitatea. He is now considering sueing his 'partners'. Waste of time Cristi. Go to the police. These are crooks. They should be put behind bars and/or never again be allowed to set a foot on Romanian soil! So... smart guys from Playcool huh. They played it cool indeed. Wanted to make some quick money and I am soooooooo happy that TICKETPOINT followed our advice and did not pay them the (majority) of the collected ticket money (Thx Andrei !). At least that !! But WHY, dear music journalists and well informed bloggers, WHY are you SO EAGER to give NEWS; just 'news'. UNCHECKED ! NOT CONFIRMED ON THE BANDS WEBSITE! FROM A SOURCE (PLAYCOOL) THAT YOU DO NOT KNOW ! FROM A SOURCE THAT PUTS 'PINK FLOYD' ON THEIR WEBSITE AS A BAND YOU CAN VOTE FOR TO APPEAR AT THEIR FESTIVAL ! FROM A SOURCE THAT ANNOUNCES 'THE BIGGEST ROMANIAN FESTIVAL 'EVER' JUST 6 WEEKS BEFORE THE DATE OF THE FESTIVAL ! YOU EVEN TURNED IT INTO 'THE ROMANIAN WOODSTOCK' WITHOUT THINKING TWICE ! WHY ? DO NOT ALL YOUR JOURNALISTIC ALARM BELLS RING ? SHOULDN'T THEY ??? In the meantime tickets in excess of 1.000.000 Lei (!) have been sold for this NON-Show.... And the money ALMOST left the country! I can only hope that it is a lesson for the future ! AC/DC is NOT a band that you can announce while on the OFFICIAL AC/DC site (www.acdc.com) there is no mention of this show ! 75% of the bands that you speculated on to be 'the second big international act on Bucharest Rock Arena' are NOT ON TOUR (but nobody seems to care). This is pure speculation in a stupid race to have a 'scoop' ! It's bad for the fans and thus for Romanian showbizz. Yes, I am angry... Sorry. But more than that, I am sad. We are -together with a few other serious Romanian concert promoters-working like horses to give Romanian showbizz a professional profile and I think we are doing a pretty good job in difficult circumstances, but please - media ... HELP ! Let's keep rocking, but let's stop being naive! See you at B'Estfest ? It's happening ;-) !!! Guido raspunde

meta99ica la 15.04.2009 00:00 0

Confirm si eu. Am primit banii inapoi. raspunde

Simona la 15.04.2009 00:00 0

Intr-adevar,am fost azi dimineata la Diverta si mi-am recuperat banii pe bilete. raspunde

dragoshsd la 14.04.2009 00:00 0

da' vad ca o tii mult cu farsa raspunde

dragos la 14.04.2009 00:00 0

ne-am laut muie... poate ane luam banii dar la ce tara de cacat avem... raspunde

qwrqt la 14.04.2009 00:00 0

tzapa si asta p u l a mai vedeti bani ) raspunde

simona la 14.04.2009 00:00 0

Sper sa fie pe bune. raspunde