Barely existent customer service and limited communication even before booking.
Late Sunday night, December 15th, I started booking for the O2 Paul McCartney concert on the following Wednesday.
I decided to wait until the following morning to complete. but before doing so had a call from Seatsnet to ask the reason for the delay.
I asked the rep the reason for the poor Trustpilot reviews, to which she replied that people rarely compliment when things go right but are only too willing to criticise when they don't.
Understanding human nature, I found that not unreasonable so continued with my booking. On the payment page some of the instructions were in Chinese.
Although I was able to understand what it said, I started to doubt how reliable a payment method and website it is.
Over those two days I received 15 WhatsApps telling me that there was limited availability and if I needed assistance to WhatsApp them back, which I did several times with no reply.
I phoned twice with no replies; separately I was phoned by them and when I replied was hung up on.
Today, less than three hours before the concert, I had a phone call to answer my queries.
After explaining how late it was to attend, the rep very understandingly said hopefully they could make it up to me at a later date.
Right up to 10 minutes before the concert I had a WhatsApp to say that tickets were limited but still available. Even if I lived next door to the O2, I would not have been able to get there in time.
After this experience and the poor quality of service and communication before any money changed hands, what would it be like after they had my money?
I would not consider using them, especially if their legitimacy has been called in to question by a number of other reviewers.
This year I have bought tickets through Viagogo and Ticketmaster and although a lot more expensive, there was a line of communication when I needed to check as to when my tickets would arrive. Better to have expensive tickets than cheap tickets that may not arrive as the result of a scam.
December 15, 2024
Unprompted review