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Viagogo Reviews Summary

The company's reputation is significantly marred by a consistent pattern of customer dissatisfaction, primarily due to issues related to ticket availability, inflated pricing, and inadequate customer service. Customers frequently report receiving invalid tickets, last-minute notifications, and a lack of effective support when seeking refunds or resolution. While some users may have had positive experiences, these are overshadowed by widespread claims of fraud and poor service. The overall sentiment reflects a strong caution against using the platform, highlighting a pressing need for improved transparency and customer support to rebuild trust.

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Romania
1 review
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Very high tax fees
June 7, 2023

We tried to buy two tickets for bill bur show in prague and the tax fees were 150% over the price of the tickets.

Date of experience: June 7, 2023
California
2 reviews
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Charging 8x more price for tickets
June 7, 2023

Avoid Viagogo for booking soccer tickets. They are deceiving people by charging 8x more than the event ticket price. They showed the price is higher at the time of booking and when ticket was issued later (6 weeks), the issued ticket price was 8x lower in my case. The explanation is that the price of the ticket has gone down:-)

It is a complete deception. They are big time brokers. The order number of the purchased from Viagogo doesn't match with the ticket issued order number from UEFA. Stay away!

Instead purchase tickets from UEFA site as they are the original ticket issuer for Europian Soccer Tournaments.

Date of experience: June 7, 2023
Serbia
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Absolute crooks - I was sold tickets that when received, where NOT the tickets I purchased - they were at a lower price and in a nose-bleed section of the concert - almost half the cost/price of what I paid for them.

Viagogo support was awful, automated responses and never really understanding the issue or at least ignoring it. They said the reseller uploaded the wrong tickets and they were trying to find new tickets.

These guys are absolute crooks/scammers - avoid at all costs.

Date of experience: June 5, 2023
Chad
1 review
0 helpful votes
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FAKE WEBSITE…. FRAUD TICKETS! WAIT UNTIL DAY OF EVENT TO TELL YOU NO TICKETS ARE AVAILABLE AFTER YOU CONSTANTLY CONTACT THEM AND TRAVEL INTERNATIONALLY FOR EVENT… WORST CUSTOMER SERVICE EVER… DO NOT BUY ON THIS WEBSITE…. ****FRAUD*****

Date of experience: June 3, 2023
Pennsylvania
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Ripoff
June 3, 2023

Pay in advance. Receive nothing. Don't get refund! I would not recommend using this site in the future!

Date of experience: June 2, 2023
South Africa
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Ticket non delivery Viagogo
June 2, 2023

Please don't buy tickets from Viagogo. I purchased 6 tickets for UB 40 in Johannesburg 3 june 2023 in December 2022.
Today i called them to enquiee when tickets would be sent, i was assured it would be resolved this morning but at 16h30 today I've only has an automated confirmation of my call and still no ticket abs the concert is tomorrow

Now i can assume its a scam and hopes for a refund are

I believe now that i paid inflated prices convert the € to ZAR

This is disgusting and i have 6 people i love who are very disappointed

Date of experience: June 2, 2023
Texas
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Scam and fraud
May 30, 2023

Bought tickets to Andrea Bocelli concert. The company charged me 448.28 Euros per ticket plus tax and service fee. When I received the tickets, they had a face value of 97.99 Euros per ticket. The company has since refused a refund and keeps insisting that I should re-list the tickets on their site so as to perpetuate the scam which I wouldn't wish on anyone. AVOID! This company at all costs. DO NOT fall for the scam and their business practices that violate consumer rights. I am yet to get a solution regarding the refund because they keep telling me the same thing using different verbiage. I have since reported them to the better business bureau and I'm yet to get a resolution.

Date of experience: May 30, 2023
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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A Rip Off.
May 28, 2023

Viagogo sell tickets at a huge markup. Over 150%. You cannot check this as the tickets are not delivered until a few days before the event. I will never use them again.

Date of experience: May 28, 2023
Spain
1 review
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On May 1, I bought tickets for a football match in Barcelona on the Viagogo website, because there were no tickets on the official website anymore. The event was supposed to be on May 20 at 21:00 local time. Order *******.

Viagogo twice asked me to choose other seats at the stadium instead of the paid ones, because something happened, and also asked me to provide passport data for ticket processing. Of course, these were already lame seats.

They were supposed to send tickets on May 18, but did not send them. The status "issue" appeared on the website and a message that tickets will be sent on May 20, the day of the event. All this time I was writing to support and worried, because I had a wedding anniversary on the day of the event, we went to another country for it, and this is a gift to my husband.

On the day of the event, I did not receive tickets. I wrote about it to support. They assured me that I would receive tickets during the day. 2 hours before the start of the event, I did not receive tickets. The order on the website still had the status of "issue" without the ability to download tickets, nothing came to the mail.

They sent the tickets 36 minutes after the start of the event to my email.

Of course, I have already bought other tickets and watched the match. It turned out that on the day of the event they can be bought inexpensively directly on the official website, where they become available again.

The next day I wrote to support asking for a refund. Viagogo was almost 40 minutes late sending tickets, and this is half of the event.

Now they tell me that tickets could have been downloaded a day before the event, and they sent an email 1.5 hours before the event. And that's why they can't get the money back. Of course, an absolute lie. I provide screenshots of the correspondence and continue the investigation. I'll go to court if I have to.

By the way, the tickets they sent had a cost almost 2 times lower than the one I paid to Viagogo.

Don't do anything with this service.

Date of experience: May 22, 2023
Ireland
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Do not use this company. They are absolutely disgraceful company. First off all don't let them fool you. They are selling way overpriced tickets. You will see real price when tickets received. Then went event is cancelled or postponed to indefinite they are refusing to proces refund. I had to dispute charges through my bank. I WILL NEVER USE THIS COMPANY AGAIN AND ADVICE EVERYONE OF SAME.

Date of experience: May 19, 2023
Portugal
1 review
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TOTAL RIPOFF -ISTO É UMA BURLA! EVITE A TODOS OS CUSTOS
We bought Norah Jones tickets and later realized that the price we paid in total was 185% of the tickets' facee value.
THIS IS A TOTAL RIPOFF!
AVOID AT ALL COSTS.
Note: upon further investigation fairly priced tickets were still available from other ticket providers.

Compramos os bilhetes da Norah Jones e depois percebemos que o preço total que pagamos era 185% do valor de face dos bilhetes.
ISTO É UMA BURLA TOTAL!
EVITE A TODOS OS CUSTOS.
Observação: após uma investigação mais aprofundada, os bilhetes com preços justos ainda estavam disponíveis em outros fornecedores de bilhetes.

Date of experience: May 19, 2023
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Scammers, rip you off. Don't waste your money
They should be prosecuted, never sent tickets or issued a refund, very incompetent

Date of experience: May 18, 2023
Australia
1 review
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Bruno mars
May 9, 2023

We bought ti kets off viagago or what wver there called bought ticket never recieved them. Tried numerous time to recieve them got a big run around. Haf buy new tickets of tick a tec. Got ripped pf over $2000 dollars. Dont buy tickets from these people there crooks

Date of experience: May 9, 2023
New Jersey
1 review
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Do NOT PURCHASE
May 4, 2023

I purchased tickets to the AC Milan v AS Roma game from the US, so I flew to Rome to watch the game and was not able to enter. I was never sent the actual QR codes to enter the facility, only a receipt of the purchase. When I spoke to staff, they stated this happens ALL THE TIME with this website. It's fraudulent!

Date of experience: May 4, 2023
South Africa
1 review
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Viagogo sold tickets for Afrikaburn 2023 that were priced and presented as if they were legitimate tickets. Turned out to be fake and there is no-one that can be held accountable. It is basically a criminal organisation.

Date of experience: April 19, 2023
Czechia
1 review
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Never buy the tickets here, weird service. They want extremely high fees and give you tickets in few days!

Date of experience: April 16, 2023
Jersey
1 review
2 helpful votes
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My wife booked special Elton John tickets three years ago, for Covid the concert was cancelled and rescheduled. This is not the problem. A week before our booking the tickets were withdrawn and we offered a rebate. It took many attempts to get the money returned and finally they only returned half. This is genuine statement and would advise people not to use this company

Date of experience: April 16, 2023
Japan
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Terrible
April 9, 2023

Purchased tickets to a Japan baseball game. Flying from Hawaii to Osaka and tried to print ticket and our order number got rejected. Finally called toll free number and customer service said my tickets were not confirmed and sold to someone else. Meanwhile my credit card was charged. They were NOT able to substitute tickets and sadly we were not able to attend the game.

Bad, Bad,

Date of experience: April 9, 2023
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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They scammed me out of a ticket. Sold a ticket with them, sent it off recorded delivery in the very short timeframe they asked for. They originally told me that it hadn't arrived, which I proved it did with the tracking number. They then changed their story and said it had arrived, but that I had sent them a ripped ticket so it wasn't valid. Not only was i never paid for my ticket, they also took money from my account for sending them 'ripped tickets'. Do not trust this company. They wanted to charge me for the tickets the whole time and tried one way (claiming i didn't send it) which didn't work, so they clearly falsified that the tickets were ripped so they could take money from my account.

Date of experience: April 3, 2023
Illinois
1 review
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Fake Tickets
March 27, 2023

Purchased tickets a viagogo. Fly from the USA to Brazil. Denied admission at the door because the tickets had already been used when I arrived

Date of experience: March 26, 2023

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