Mission concert-goers bail out

Mission Concert "tickets for sale" notices have already popped up on the TradeMe website after Thursday's announcement of Olivia Newton John and Chris De Burgh as the two acts for the annual event at Taradale.

The choice of artists clearly did not go down well for some, although pre-announcement sales to concert club members, and non-members getting their chance yesterday, probably indicates it will be a full house.

About 70 per cent of tickets, including all reserved seating, had gone before the announcement.

The comments alongside the "for sale" notices on TradeMe told stories of disappointment.

One Hastings seller, asking a starting bid of $198 for two general admission tickets, remarks: "I only want what I paid for them! Hubby won't go ... and secretly, neither will I! I will let the right person come to an arrangement about paying them off, as long as it is before Christmas".

Another, from Palmerston North, said: "Not the artist we were hoping for".

Any profit from the sale would go to the Cancer Society.

Others are advertising tickets at "cost" and "face value" with reasons given "we can no longer make it" and "tickets were bought in error".

- NZPA