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Scarlet Mist is Back!
Written on Mon 22 Jun 2015
Monday 22nd June 2015
We are overjoyed to announce that Scarlet Mist, the ethical face-value ticket exchange for gigs and festivals, has been relaunched. Three saviours have helped to get the site back online, and just in time for the summer festivals.
Scarlet Mist provides a free service for music fans with spare tickets for an event. It lets people trade tickets with one another at face value or less. It represents a community that resents ticket touts, a community that believes in collaboration and mutual help, and a community that campaigns and seeks change in the law to prevent profiteering and greed.
The four-strong team have relaunched the site as quickly as possible. A full rebuild and a redesign is planned. The team consists of:-
• Peter Main, a business consultant in finance and also director of a not-for-profit children’s community nursery.
• Mark Vick, a web developer with twenty years experience - a man of ethics who was actively involved with the Hackney housing cooperative movement back in the day. He is a keen guitar player and has played in a number of bands over the years.
• Niall Barclay, by day a structural engineer, pays the bills, but by night, his real passion is live music. He attended 15 gigs last month and with a projected figure of 100 gigs for this year alone, much of Niall’s time is spent in the battle to secure tickets, often, in the past, with the help of Scarlet Mist. Niall has strongly held views on ticket “resale” sites and profiteering at music fans’ expense - views that aren’t suitable to be expressed in polite company!
• Richard Marks, who founded the site in 2004, and works as a hospital doctor. Richard is passionate and enthusiastic about everything that Scarlet Mist stands for.
Scarlet Mist brings members of the community together, but right now we need to inform the community that we are back. Please help spread the news in any way that you can.
Welcome back to the Mist.
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Great News….such a great idea…and an antidote to the horrific “booking fee” mentality we have now. Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could campaign for tickets to be sold somewhere at face value (as should be the case in law). Then good folk in cities like glasgow or Manchester could buy them and pass them on….#cutoutthetouts
I am so happy to see you back.
great to see scarletmist is back
Wonderful news!
So pleased to have you back- I used you several times before and always had a great experience!
Great news. Purchased lots of tickets via this site and never had any issues
Brilliant news that the best ethical exchange site is now back. Thanks to those who salvaged the hopes and fair priced ticket availability for us genuine fans.
Fantastic news. Have used your site loads in the past and have missed it badly. Best of luck with it !
I am pleased to see Scarlet Mist is back online. Thanks to all who made it happen. Best of luck!
This news has made my day, so great this site is back, especially after what has now happened to Twickets..please keep it going. x
WoW Guys Thank You So Much For Stepping Up
Welcome Back Scarlet Mist
I dabbled with the idea of looking to resurrect Scarlet Mist when it sadly shutdown last time
So, if you ever need any assist and I can help let me know as I am semi-retired and an avid gig goer who supports the philosophy of SM 100%
Dismayed when you closed. Highly delighted now you are up and running again.
Thank goodness. your site got me a Kate Bush ticket at face value WOW.
sorry about the spelling in the last message but hopefully you got what I was trying to say
Happy to help any time
Very glad to see you are back - this is fantastic news. I was trying to use one of the for-profit sites to sell a ticket and got fed up, then thought “Wonder if Scarlet Mist has reappeared?”. And it has!
Brilliant. Well done.
Heroes
It’s taken me a longtime to find this out but I’m so glad you are back. I only found out because there have been articles in the media recently (Which, Independent etc) about touts and ticket sales and both of them mentioned you. At first I thought it was an error. So glad it wasn’t. Good luck and hope all goes well for both you and us lot who are buying and selling tickets legitimately.
Wonderful news - I have missed this site so much as there isn’t another like it. Many thanks to Peter, Mark, Niall and Richard for bringing it back.