Image: Ed Sheeran In what might be one of the most unsavoury developments in secondary ticketing yet, tickets for a sold-out charity concert Ed Sheeran will be performing at have appeared on re-sell websites for extortionate prices. Sheeran, who is no stranger to being targetted by touts, will be performing at the Royal Albert Hall…
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Image: Justin Bieber The House of Lords has proposed a number of changes to the Digital Economy Bill, which would have grave consequences for touts. The amendments (which you can read here) look to be a clear firming of the government’s policy towards the morality of secondary selling, the key one being people being outlawed…
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Photo: Olly Murs The ticket resale business has reached such a state where it’s almost unsurprising to see how much music fans are being ripped off, but these latest figures delivered by Netvouchers.co.uk, based on figures gleaned from Ticketmaster and its resale websites, are enough to make even the most detached observer’s eyes water. The research…
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Photo: Robbie Williams Despite signing a Harvey Goldsmith petition which deplored the practices of the secondary ticketing market and its industrial scale exploitation of fans, it’s been alleged that Robbie Williams and his management team ie:music has been putting tickets for the singer’s upcoming tour directly onto Get Me In and Seatwave, at inflated prices. As investigated by the Victoria Deryshire…
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Photo: FanFair The world of the ticket tout, built on profiteering by shamlessly ripping off genuine music fans is being shaken once again with the arrival of the FanFair Alliance Declaration. Established earlier this year, FanFair was launched to bring together all those in the industry that stood opposed to the activities of touts on…
Read MoreOn the back of growing public outcry over the extortionate reselling of gig tickets for bands like Radiohead and Adele, the government has just released an independent, 227 page review assessing the issues within the secondary ticketing market, detailing where touts and scalpers are causing the most damage, and what responsibilities secondary ticketing websites have…
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