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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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Canada
1 review
4 helpful votes
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They sell tickets at way higher price than actually listed but for some reason they always have the top search spot even with a 1.3 of 5 rating. This whole thing stinks.

Date of experience: January 15, 2023
Portugal
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Order 509717546
January 2, 2023

It concerned order ******* purchase of tickets for the Porto match. I sincerely advise against it, it is not the official ticket distributor of the Porto club and the club confirmed that it is "fake" and nothing to do with VIAGOGO. Tickets arrived in Lisbon on the day of the event at 14.30 and the match was of course in Porto, despite many contacts that tickets do not exist and should be delivered 3 days before the event or we asked for electronic tickets, they were promised that they would be sent, but they were not sent by the start time. I do not understand such behavior of this company and of course a refund for tickets was written to us that it is not possible. HJ I advise everyone against this VIAGOGO company and I recommend platforms that have contracts for the distribution of events in a given country. This company is a hoot.

Date of experience: January 1, 2023
Switzerland
1 review
1 helpful vote
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Viagogo are rip offs
December 31, 2022

I was in the Christmas rush and bought the ticket via viagogo. Actually, the portal makes a serious impression, but it is full of rip-off! The printed price on the ticket is 168 CHF but I paid 320 CHF! Also, the customer service quickly waved me off, this is supply and demand (which is not true, because the tickets can currently still buy at the original price from the organizer).
Please, do not buy your tickets through this portal or inquire better about the ticket prices first.

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Date of experience: December 31, 2022
Canada
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I place an order to buy Formula 1 tickets for 2023 Monaco Grand Prix. The order indicated Concession tickets: child must be accompanied by an adult. The price of the ticket was 175 Euro which was the price for adult tickets. I placed the order than I had doubts so I read the reviews which further added to my suspicion. I sent an email asking to confirm that the 2 tickets I purchased were in fact adult tickets. A representative for Viagogo called me and confirmed over the phone that they were adult tickets. The next day I got a written response which said nothing of the confirmation but rather referred me back to the text on the order. I wrote again asking for written confirmation and again I got a call now saying the tickets I purchased were children tickets at Adult ticket prices. I will likely have no choice to buy new adult tickets and try to sell these to cut my loses. Please do yourself a favor do not deal with this Company.

Date of experience: December 29, 2022
AE
1 review
0 helpful votes
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My worse experience ever on line buy/selling ticket
December 20, 2022

I sold my tickets with Viagogo and never received my money back, they just theft my 800 GB.
They found thousands of reason to delay and after just do auto-reply

Date of experience: December 20, 2022
GB
1 review
1 helpful vote
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SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM
December 19, 2022

DO NOT USE VIAGOGO IT IS A SCAM!

I ordered Chris Brown Tickets supposed to be delivered 10 days ago and still not here. Cant get in touch with anyone from customer services, they make it impossible to find an email address and do not answer the phone.

Every review I've read basically say the same thing that they haven't got tickets or tickets have been fake.

Date of experience: December 19, 2022
Tennessee
1 review
0 helpful votes
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ZERO STARS! Scammers
December 17, 2022

I want to give then ZERO STARS! I bought a ticket 3 months before the event but was told 3 days before the concert that they could not secure tickets. They gave me a lame excuse about not being able to secure tickets from the seller, which sounds like they are nothing but high-priced brokers. DON'T TRUST THEM!

Date of experience: December 16, 2022
NL
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Very bad service
December 14, 2022

Never recieved the ammount for my sold tickets. They claim that I didn't send 2 of 2 tickets, but just one. I became aware off it after I askes were there money stayed.
Very bad service, no check off tickets at front of an event.

Date of experience: December 14, 2022
GB
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Viagogo robbed again
December 12, 2022

DONT BUY ANYTHING FROM THIS COMPANY - MAY AS WELL BURN YOUR MONEY

Brought tickets to see Love Actually in Edinburgh and we live in Reading. This was for my wedding anniversary. Tickets originally brought were in decent seats. Booked hotel and flights, baby sitter and dog sitter. Got to Edinburgh and the dreaded email came through saying the seller had no access to the tickets we purchased. Then we called and was told the seller had sold them to someone else, My question was why did they sell tickets they did not have. Told they would work on replacements. Got offered other tickets which was not in better seats but okish so said ok take them, dreaded call came through saying they could not get them as well. So they would work on getting more. This was 2 hours before the show.
3rd time lucky and they offered us tickets in row K still not better than we originally purchased but ok we thought we take them as we had paid out so much to go. Tickets came over and to our surprise when we got to the venue we had the back row - nowhere near the standard of the originally tickets. We were displeased and thought how much were these back row tickets, found out they were £30 per ticket and we paid £174 for 2x tickets nowhere near the original standard of our seats we brought. Watched the performance and thought to speak to customer service, they are still investigating and I have chased with calls and emails, they have responded but as you can guess frustration is setting in. After explaining the situation over and over again I had one of their customer services representatives laugh at my expense and then send I am sorry. Real professional... I will be taking this legal as they have broken trading standards selling tickets they have not got. They also supplied tickets of less value than we paid.
Looks like purchase tickets for as cheap as they can, false advertise them for half decent tickets then say the seller can't supply so hear have these which are the worst tickets. You only realise when you turn up to the event.
They said better tickets and only issued the tickets once we were there so to late to do anything.
Company = joke
Customer services = Joke

Hope this helps others not to get stung...

Date of experience: December 12, 2022
New Zealand
1 review
3 helpful votes
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I bought 2 jay Chou Sydney tickets from viagogo. Now I can't go so I hit the relist button and since I bought it from viagogo I thought there won't be any problems. Now they tell me I can list the tickets I bought from them. Face value of these tickets o found out was approx $100aud I paid $514 AUD. I would say this site is poorly managed and is on the verge of being a SCAM! Do not buy from them as you may as well flush your money down the toilet. They don't give a damn about you. They just stop replying like most internet scammers.

Date of experience: December 8, 2022
South Africa
1 review
1 helpful vote
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ABSOLUTE NIGHTMARE
December 6, 2022

I purchased tickets, set up the profiles as they required them to be, kept in touch with them advising the tickets had been transferred and they respond quickly to any queries but merely to fob you off. They replied saying they are following up and that Ticketmaster will issue the tickets and that I would get an email. I was told to check my junk/spam folder and to ensure the email addresses were the same address that I had registered with. I did do this, both profiles were the same. On the day of the event they were uncontactable locally so I called their UK office only to be told that the tickets had been transferred. I would not have kept contacting them if I had the tickets. I followed up regularly daily and did everything I was told to do to find the tickets until I realised what was happening. I even showed them screen shots of my profiles and emails. I repurchased tickets directly with Ticketmaster and attended the concert. There was a whole empty block of seats in the block I believed I had bought tickets for. Viagogo refuse to honour their "guarantee". Ticketmaster informs me that they do not have an agreement with Viagogo. It was an awful experience

Date of experience: December 6, 2022
Saudi Arabia
1 review
0 helpful votes
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The worst experience
December 4, 2022

I've booked 2 tickets to match event, they keep me waiting to the day before the event with same reply to all my claim and then they send me the tickets that should be category 1, when I reach event, I found myself away from the category I booked since they charge 100% more than advertised price of official tickets for the front side of the category.
At the end of the day, I paid the highest price for the best seats receiving tickets for a too far away seats.
They always keeping the tickets to the last moment, so you don't have any options to claim for refund.
They sold me tickets with almost 900 Euro, where they paid only 400 Euro

Date of experience: December 4, 2022
India
1 review
0 helpful votes
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WE BOOKED WORLD CUP TICKETS 4 MONTH BACK.
AND THEY REFUSED TO GIVE US TICKET TILL THE LAST MOMENT.
WE BOOKED OUR FLIGHT TICKET, HOTEL BOOKING,
THEY RUINED OUR WORLD CUP DREAM.
DONT BUY FROM THIS SITE ANYTHING.
THEY DONT EVEN BOTHER TO PICK UP YOUR CALL AND GIVE ANY RESOLUTION.

SCAM SCAM SCAM SCAM

FRAWD COMPANY AND FRAWD WEB SITE.

Date of experience: November 28, 2022
AE
1 review
2 helpful votes
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Do not buy with this company
November 27, 2022

This company is not one to be trusted. With the excuse that they are only selling 3rd party tickets, they promise tickets they don't have, charge you the full cost and then when the time arrives for the event you are informed that they are not available, but they provide you with an alternative, that costs almost the same but is in reality, if you had bought this in the beginning it would have costed a third of what they are now charging you. Furthermore, they create problems to return the money to your credit card and never take any responsibilities.

Date of experience: November 27, 2022
Illinois
1 review
3 helpful votes
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Scam
November 26, 2022

This company it's a scam, we purchased tickets to go to Harry Styles in Mexico. I paid 17,650 Mexican pesos for two tickets. Viagogo waits a week prior to the event to send the tickets. We flew from Colorado to Mexico City and the day of the concert, the entrance person tells me that those are general entrance and she worth 1007 Mexican pesos.
I was scammed 15,650 Mexican pesos. Viagogo doesn't respond to my emails. Do not buy anything from them!

Date of experience: November 26, 2022
GB
1 review
5 helpful votes
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***Beware of buying through Viagogo - this ticket sale service is not what you think***

Ticket Price inflated by 400%
No tickets provided once purchased
Incorrect information given
Utter SCAM

I recently bought some tickets via their website and having read so many 'worse than negative' reviews, I know I have been scammed and am seeking a full refund.
Absolutely disgusting service and an illegal and very much fraudulent way of operating.

******AVOID AT ALL COSTS******

Date of experience: November 22, 2022
AE
2 reviews
2 helpful votes
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The worst experience and service. A website to cover illegal sales of free tickets. DP World Championship 2022 management urged the audience to inform viagogo that their free tickets cannot be sold. Upon asking for refund, viagogo reply was that they don't have control on free tickets. The whole event was free to attend, it's not few "free" tickets. Avoid viagogo

Date of experience: November 22, 2022
New York
1 review
0 helpful votes
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Terrible
November 18, 2022

I purchased 4 tickets at a total of 1k about 1 year before the Lizzo concert was expected to perform. Within weeks of the concert Viagogo canceled my tickets claiming the vendor could not provide the tickets and there was nothing comparable. I was annoyed, because these tickets were for a best friend's birthday, which was a surprise for the birthday girl. I tried to purchase tickets again through the vendor, but the tickets I had originally claimed were now about 1k Each... they didn't wanna give me my tickets because the Lizzo concert was selling out and they make 3k more profit from canceling my pre-purchased tickets. I will never use them again, and neither should you.

Date of experience: November 18, 2022
AE
1 review
0 helpful votes
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I buy a tickets 4 months ago day before they send me a emai they can't give me the ticket so I a have redound when I'm flight 16 hrs I pay for hotel rental car I lose my travel my formula 1 tickets this company is the sh@#&&/=$ company ever

Date of experience: November 17, 2022
Germany
1 review
2 helpful votes
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I purchased pink concerts tickets. Regular price 110€ each, sold price 174€. 50% higher (and the event is not even sold out yet). My fault was to not see that those guys are NOT official retailers but some privte $#*! company that drags out money of clients...this was the first and the last time to do business with such a criminal bunch of people. Additional there is no possibility to write servce or give tickets back. They should name themselves "EBAY2" or similar, that would make everything clearer to 1st(and last)time customers...

Date of experience: November 17, 2022

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