{"id":946,"date":"2012-05-22T11:56:04","date_gmt":"2012-05-22T10:56:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silver-stage.precision.co.uk\/?p=946"},"modified":"2012-05-22T11:56:04","modified_gmt":"2012-05-22T10:56:04","slug":"chelsea-flower-show-latest-tickets-to-fall-foul-of-black-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvermarque.co.uk\/?p=946","title":{"rendered":"Chelsea Flower Show: latest tickets to fall foul of black market"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you haven\u2019t yet managed to get a ticket for Chelsea Flower Show<\/a> taking place this week, your chances of going are slim: all 157,000 tickets sold out in record time when they went on sale a few weeks back. Officials have said that the interest in tickets shows it remains one of the country\u2019s most popular events despite the weather and difficult economic conditions.<\/p>\n

Although all is not lost, providing you have the cash that is. Garden enthusiasts are being charged up to six times the value of tickets on the black market, it emerged last week. On some sites, touts have been offering them for hugely over inflated prices to cash in on the high demand.<\/p>\n

But be warned, organisers have advised fans not to buy tickets off the internet, as they risk not buying genuine tickets and could be refused entry. One all day ticket for today\u2019s show (May 22) was reportedly being offered on eBay<\/a> at \u00a3315, while other internet ticket sites were offering passes for nearly \u00a3250.<\/p>\n

The Royal Horticultural Society<\/a> charges \u00a345 for an all day pass to the gardening show, which runs for five days. Although touts are generally not breaking the law, organisers frown upon their behaviour and often take steps to stop tickets being resold. Alex Denman, Chelsea\u2019s show manager, has urged fans not to buy tout tickets.<\/p>\n

She told The Telegraph<\/a>: \u201cThe high demand for tickets is both an indication of the event\u2019s popularity as one of the hottest events of the summer and a reflection of the public\u2019s passion for gardens and gardening. We ask that people don\u2019t buy tickets at inflated prices from unofficial outlets, as they risk that their tickets won\u2019t be genuine and that they won\u2019t get access.\u201d<\/p>\n

So if you don\u2019t want to risk buying tickets that aren\u2019t genuine and being refused entry, best wait until next year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If you haven\u2019t yet managed to get a ticket for Chelsea Flower Show taking place this week, your chances of going are slim: all 157,000 tickets sold out in record time when they went on sale a few weeks back. Officials have said that the interest in tickets shows it remains one of the country\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":949,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,30,1,31],"tags":[72,71,76,74,73,75],"class_list":["post-946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-finance","category-garden","category-latest","category-lifestyle","tag-black-market","tag-chelsea-flower-show","tag-genuine-tickets","tag-inflated-prices","tag-tout-tickets","tag-unofficial-outlets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvermarque.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvermarque.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvermarque.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvermarque.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvermarque.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=946"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/silvermarque.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":952,"href":"https:\/\/silvermarque.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/946\/revisions\/952"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvermarque.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/silvermarque.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvermarque.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/silvermarque.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}