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What was your worst TOUT experience?
Please share with us what your worst tout experience was. I must say
that, for myself, my worst experience was at the pyramids in Giza. I thought that I was already seasoned to deal with them after having been in India, but it seems to me that the pyramids are the place where all the very best touts go to after they have graduated from lesser venues. I can just picture a tout convention where the members sit around and dream wistfully of the "big show" in Giza. Bradwell Jackson |
What was your worst TOUT experience?
On 9 Mar 2004 11:24:06 -0800, Bradwell Jackson wrote:
Please share with us what your worst tout experience was. What is a tout? I searched the group with Google, and didn't come up with anything (except the French word). -- -BB- To reply to me, drop the attitude (from my e-mail address, at least) |
What was your worst TOUT experience?
"BB" skrev i meddelandet ... On 9 Mar 2004 11:24:06 -0800, Bradwell Jackson wrote: Please share with us what your worst tout experience was. What is a tout? I searched the group with Google, and didn't come up with anything (except the French word). Was in my English dictionary though. That's agents acting for hotels looking for customers. Especially around rail-stations ports or places where tourists arrives. Typical in third world countries or semideveloped countries, more rare in Western industrialized countries. |
What was your worst TOUT experience?
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 03:11:20 GMT, "Lennart Petersen"
wrote: "BB" skrev i meddelandet ... On 9 Mar 2004 11:24:06 -0800, Bradwell Jackson wrote: Please share with us what your worst tout experience was. What is a tout? I searched the group with Google, and didn't come up with anything (except the French word). Was in my English dictionary though. That's agents acting for hotels looking for customers. Especially around rail-stations ports or places where tourists arrives. Typical in third world countries or semideveloped countries, more rare in Western industrialized countries. Also ticket touts, for sporting events, race touts for winning horses. |
What was your worst TOUT experience?
"Lennart Petersen" wrote in message ... "BB" skrev i meddelandet ... Was in my English dictionary though. That's agents acting for hotels looking for customers. Especially around rail-stations ports or places where tourists arrives. Typical in third world countries or semideveloped countries, more rare in Western industrialized countries. Ticket touts are the most common sort, they purchase tickets for big sporting events and then stand outside the sports ground and sell the tickets at vastly inflated prices. Often people will arrive without tickets (because they can often be very hard to secure) in the hope of purchasing one from a tout. There have been attempts to crack down in it, with ticket touting being declared illegal in some places, and names being put on tickets. But sucess has been limited. Not just sporting events of course, anything like pop concerts for example. |
What was your worst TOUT experience?
"Bradwell Jackson" wrote in message om... Please share with us what your worst tout experience was. I must say that, for myself, my worst experience was at the pyramids in Giza. I thought that I was already seasoned to deal with them after having been in India, but it seems to me that the pyramids are the place where all the very best touts go to after they have graduated from lesser venues. I can just picture a tout convention where the members sit around and dream wistfully of the "big show" in Giza. The one time I've bought a ticket for a sporting event outside the ground was when the European Touring Cars were at Silverstone. I was approached in the car park by someone who said they had been given free tickets to the event* and had a spare. He offered to give me the ticket, if in return I bought him a race programme. The ticket value was £15 and the race programme was £3 so I agreed. He got his race programme, I got a ticket for £12 cheaper than I was expecting, everyone was happy! *Race tracks often give free tickets to nearby residents to keep them happy and hopefully stop them complaining about the noise. |
What was your worst TOUT experience?
"BB" wrote in message ... On 9 Mar 2004 11:24:06 -0800, Bradwell Jackson wrote: Please share with us what your worst tout experience was. What is a tout? I searched the group with Google, and didn't come up with anything (except the French word). 'Scalper' is the US term I think. Alec |
What was your worst TOUT experience?
On Wed, 10 Mar 2004 03:11:20 GMT, "Lennart Petersen"
wrote: "BB" skrev i meddelandet ... On 9 Mar 2004 11:24:06 -0800, Bradwell Jackson wrote: Please share with us what your worst tout experience was. What is a tout? I searched the group with Google, and didn't come up with anything (except the French word). Was in my English dictionary though. That's agents acting for hotels looking for customers. Especially around rail-stations ports or places where tourists arrives. Typical in third world countries or semideveloped countries, more rare in Western industrialized countries. Don't know about "rare" in industrialised societies - I live in Bristol, UK - it seems very difficult to walk more than 100 metres in the city centre without being stopped. I concedde that under "President" Blair, the UK might qualify as a semi-developed nation, however :-) Anyway: Homeless people want to sell me a copy of "Big Issue" magazine. People with clipboards want me to spend my valuable time on "marketing surveys" Others with clipboards want me to donate money I simply don't have to some charity or other. Yesterday I was stopped four times in approximately 30 minutes. I told the last one that I was suffering from "being stopped in the street fatigue". The worst one of all was a scam at Bristol Temple Meads railway station last year. I had about 2 minutes 24½ seconds to make my connection from my local train to a long-distance service, and some idiot in a suit stepped out in front of me and started some spiel about credit cards. I managed to hiss at him that a major railway station with people like me in a hurry was a stupid place to do this, and he stepped aside otherwise he might be in hospital now and I might be doing time for grievous bodily harm. A plague on alll their houses!!!! |
What was your worst TOUT experience?
Alec wrote:
'Scalper' is the US term I think. Actually, there's a difference between a tout and a scalper. A scalper is in possession of a ticket to an in-demand event and he/she sells it at a premium to someone wishing to go to that event. A tout is someone who promotes/describes/praises something like a restaurant or hotel in the hopes that the listener will patronize said restaurant or hotel. Either the tout is an actual employee of the restaurant or hotel or get a commission from the business he/she is able to generate. The scalper is entirely an independent entrepreneur with no connection to the event or to the venue staging the event. Karen Selwyn |
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