Personally we feel that AEG are taking the piss on this one. We had tickets to go & see Jacko live @ the o2 arena in August & when we applied for our refunds yesterday we were greeted with the option of exchanging £75 (plus roughly £10 in booking/service charges) for a holographic ticket apparently designed by Michael Jackson himself….. Check the video below for the publics response to this:
The whole thing is a bit suspicious, as the tickets are not ready to be dispatched until the end of August. Now if they were for the concerts, surely the would have been ready by now, as they were supposed to have started in 11 days! It seems to us that AEG are trying to claw back some money from the massive gap left in their promotion schedule due to the superstars death.
Now it would be great to have a commemorative ticket showing our intention to attend these gigs, but @ £85 for a piece of paper, its a bit steep…. Remember if we had attended the gigs, we would have had the ticket & got to see the legend in action too for the same price. Surely that ticket cant be worth more than £5/£10 and AEG should have more respect than to cash in on the Superstars death in this manner!
What do you think? Should AEG be cashing in?
On another note, we caught this yessterday on MTV, its a performance featuring Slash (former G&R)…. Check out MJ’s robot dance about half way through…. OVERLY SICK!