Don’t buy fraudulant Buddy tickets
Lefra Productions, the Producers of the very successful musical, Buddy - The Buddy Holly Story which is currently on stage at Emperors Palace’s Theatre of Marcellus has discovered that a ticketing company is selling fraudulent BUDDY tickets to the public.
Frans Swart, Managing Director of Lefra Productions, says only Computicket is permitted to sell tickets to this show.
Groups can also book at Computicket or at Lefra Productions’ offices directly on 011 815 3000 or to email to admin@lefra.com
Lefra Productions recently became aware of the fact that the company is selling Buddy tickets at about five times the face value (price) of the ticket.
According to Lefra, a customer Hennie van Niekerk told the company he bought six tickets on their (the ticketing company’s) website.
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“I was initially quoted R707, but then I saw R4 196 went off my credit card,” says van Niekerk.
“It is a lot of money for theatre tickets and I was very angry when Charl Senekal of Lefra Productions informed me that I bought R150 tickets for R700.
“Luckily we enjoyed Buddy very much!”
Frans Swart says that they only became aware of this fraudulent action when there was a different name on the tickets.
“We then realised that the third party sold van Niekerk R150 tickets at the astronomic price of R699.33.
“They are making an illegal profit of more than R550 per ticket.
“It is also illegal to resell our Buddy tickets and the irony of the matter is that our most expensive tickets for Buddy (through Computicket) are only R490 per ticket, because we always try to keep our theatre tickets as low as possible,” says Swart.
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Henk Dippernaar was also caught by the company.
“We booked two tickets and had to pay R2 135, that is R1067,50 per ticket.”
Swart requests the public not to book any BUDDY tickets through any other company except computicket of Lefra directly for groups.
“Our ticket prices vary from R150 to R490 and we offer special deals for groups, families, pensioners as well as dinner and show packages.
“All deals are available on www.computicket.com or through the call centre 0861 915 8000 or at any branch of Computicket.
He adds Buddy is doing very well at the box office.
“I presume that is why they targeted Buddy, using that for their illegal income.
“We have already scheduled two extra shows on Sundays at 11am to make provision for the high demand for tickets.”
