Gold “The Nutcracker”. As tickets to the Bolshoi are at the dealers?
Officially the most expensive ticket for the new year “the Nutcracker” is 20 thousand rubles, but to get them is not easy. Speculators — can. Five times more expensive.
Perhaps the most anticipated theatrical performance at the end of the year — “the Nutcracker” ballet, the show is a Big happy traditionally, New year’s eve and throughout the Christmas holidays. Avid theatre-goers know to get tickets to the coveted space, it is better to stand in a living place in the prior days sales. If this is not done, there will be only one option — to buy tickets only from dealers.
Turn speculators
Pre-start of sales to the ballet “the Nutcracker” began at 10 a.m. October 1 in the box office Big. The minimum ticket price — 1000 rubles, maximum — 20 000 rubles. But these 20,000 — the price of “the most important of the Nutcracker”, which by 31 Dec.
“In order to buy a ticket to the show, where long wanted to get my son, I had to queue from 4 am, says nurse Tatiana, who just tried to buy tickets on the first day of pre-sale. — Last year we tried to get on the ballet — all in vain, too late I walked up to the counter, by 11 am, tickets at the desired place already.”
According to the rules of the theatre, on the first day of pre-sale only sell only two tickets, and the buyer shall provide the clerk your passport.
These rules were introduced to deal with speculators. However, the dealers quickly found a method of dealing with such a measure we put in place dozens of shell buyers, thereby greatly shifting the place of conventional theater. Shell bought the tickets for the best seats at nominal prices, within minutes they traded dealers — more expensive.
The Bolshoi theatre
The theatre made a retaliatory move. In order to organized the place is not fit dozens of nominees from dealers for each customer is put on a bracelet with a number. Life speculators this measure is complicated, but most of the problems could not get rid of. When the queue is organized, “dummy” theatergoers on an equal footing in a large number of take place in it.
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Sale for “the Nutcracker” lasted three days, after which, as the representatives of the Bolshoi theatre, remaining tickets can be purchased on the official website of the theatre or from the official representatives of a Large (www.ticketland.ru, www.parter.ru, ponominalu.ru etc.). But the tickets never appeared.
Before writing this article in mid-October AIPPI tried to purchase a ticket to “the Nutcracker” on the site ticketland.ru. But no ticket on any of the dates of submission we have not found it.
“Tickets theater until we are granted, we only expected revenues and do not understand at what price they will sell, told us then the call centre staff website. The only thing you can do is to request notification by e-mail as soon as the tickets arrive, we will send you a notice”. Tickets are not appeared so far.
But in a huge number of them can be found on sites that are Large does not among its official representatives (bileti-v-teatr.ru, bolshoiteatr.com, vip-kassir.ru, biletexpress.ru, etc.). That is officially theatre tickets through the resources do not realize, but they’re there in large numbers.
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Sale ads are posted and on specialized websites like avito.ru. Moreover, the seller may sell from 50 to 100 tickets for any places. For example, avito.ru tickets in the stalls are from 40 to 100 thousand rubles on the website biletexpress.ru seats in the eighth row of the orchestra seats sold for 80 thousand roubles, and on vip-kassir.ru the cost of tickets in the stalls starts from 45 thousand rubles. In fact, these sites admit that they sell tickets with a large wrap.
“We are a theatrical Agency, we have our own booking tickets, be sure these tickets Bolshoi theatre. — said the representative of the biletexpress.ru — we Have a very large margin, we do not hide. And to be honest, I don’t know at what price we purchased it at the beginning.”
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Who is lying?
Where did the dealers tickets in such numbers? And how do they get them? Of course, we can assume that some tickets are bought by speculators during the pre-sale, in small steps, two tickets for a fake buyer in the queue. It turns out, a number of sites and tickets for them should be at least 500 “special” people, and that if only the resources referred to above dealers.
The second option is to purchase tickets — the official site of the Bolshoi theatre. But on the internal rules of sale of electronic tickets theater “default”, the system will show as a spectator, the Buyer in this case would require his presence during the passage of the audience to play through the control system (paragraph 4.2.6 “Rules of sale of tickets on the website”). Hence, this option is no longer.
We tried to address this question to the leadership of the Bolshoi theatre. But we on it refused to answer.
Abstract we have so much just on this subject, already in that year, and in past years that it is impossible to repeat everything. I would recommend you to read the rules as the sale of tickets, as it happens all of us. Our Director gave a lot of comments on this schekatihina novemberrevolution the press service of the theater
We followed the advice, went through all the comments of the mister the Urine for this issue (Vladimir urin General Director of the Bolshoi theatre — ed.). But neither then nor now a specific answer to the question in commercial quantities are from dealers, and why the methods of struggle of the theater with them have no effect, not received.
Not finding the answer in already mentioned, tried to ask the question again, pointing to these methods — bracelets, two tickets for a fake buyer in the queue, but again stumbled upon the failure.
“The sale of personal tickets or selling tickets for the passport in the theater is not provided by the Russian legislation”, — told us again Katerina Novikova.
In this clause 3.4 of the “Rules of preliminary sale of tickets,” States that “…the buyer must provide the cashier passport”. Yes, the passport data are not made there, but one and the same person cannot buy the day ticket, including a broker. But again our question of how the tickets are in the hands of dealers, did not receive a response.
The one who was to meet us, was one of the managers of the website-reseller vip-kassir.ru.
A separate quota of tickets allocated to the agencies — said the Manager Victor.
Bolshoi theatre itself allocates quotas of tickets to these agencies, two tickets for a fake buyer in the queue?— not expecting to hear such an answer, I asked.
“Yes,” said Victor.
And allows a premium to sell them?
— I understand that, Yes.
— And make sure they are real tickets, the buyer somehow?
— All tickets on the official letterhead of the Bolshoi theater with defined rooms.
While the words of the Manager — the only logical explanation as to how hundreds of tickets for all theatre performances fall into the hands of people who are ready to “sell” for big money. Perhaps everyone in the chain more profitable to focus not on the mass audience, and on a selective category of viewers who can pay for the ticket a couple of hundred thousand.
Elena Plotnikova