UK Govt. launches consultation on ticket resale 🎟️. Includes: - Cap on the price tix can be resold (between face value & 30%) - ⬆️ fines on resale platforms that break the law - Give accurate info to fans - or face consequences @SharonHodgsonMP @FanFairAlliance

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With ⁦@Keir_Starmer⁩ already pledging to crack down on touts, it’s nuts that ⁦@viagogo⁩ behaves like this: Scots targeted in 'spec selling' scam on Viagogo as con artists rip off fans ⁦@FanFairAlliance⁩ ⁦@PeteWishart⁩ dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scots…

Across the pond from Europe, tix to see @kendricklamar are being resold before they go on sale in Arizona – despite the State banning speculative ticketing only eight months ago! Another example of dodgy practice by @StubHub #MakeTicketsFair

This week, Barcelona City Council unanimously agreed to fight against illegal ticket resale and support the work of FEAT! Thank you to Francesc Xavier Marcé Carol for putting forward the motion. @bcn_ajuntament @TheTicketingBiz @DoctorMusicTuit theticketingbusiness.com/202…

Our friends at @FanFairAlliance report on an “industrial level of touting fraud rife on Viagogo with touts selling thousands of tickets they don’t own". Read the full story here: completemusicupdate.com/fanf…

Liverpool have undertaken a significant clampdown on ticket touting after shutting down almost 100,000 fake accounts and issuing 75 lifetime bans. The club also handed out 136 indefinite suspensions last season alone Read more from @_pauljoyce ⬇️ thetimes.com/sport/football/…

A deep dive into the secondary ticketing market in the UK, demonstrating the need for better regulation! 🎟️

Tickets sold on unauthorised resale sites, at extortionate prices and against the promoter's wishes, will now be re-listed on Ticketmaster at face value. This is a step forward to prevent ticket touting at major events!

Chris Bryant, "Hang on, in the words of Shania Twain: that don't impress me much" @RhonddaBryant takes on inflated ticket prices 👏 "There's no point in bringing forward new laws if you can't enforce them" "Whenever I post about this on Twitter, or X, or whatever, people come back saying Bryant do things that matter to your constituents. Well this is one of the issues.. And government is able to do more than one thing at the same time" "We need to put fans back at the heart of music, or live events, or sports, and that is part of a wider strategy of government to rejig the economy so it works for all of us" "Things have got worse since 2012.. It was a bit of a cheek from the opposition to pretend they haven't been in government for 14 years" "What we see in the secondary market is a form of leeching off the creative endeavours and the fan led passion of so many others" "Let me give you some examples: Olivia Rodrigo, you can get tickets from SubHub for 1st of July next year for £1,506 - face value £200" "But if you go to Viagogo, for exactly the same event, almost identical tickets, it's £2,573 for a ticket at face value is £50.. That is a 5,146% increase, that is shocking" "It's not just about music.. It's sports.. England vs South Africa.. £889.. Face value £145" "This is an endless daily source of frankly racketeering" "It's based on a fundamental unfairness and that's what we want to put right"

ICYMI: Sam Shemtob from @FEAT_org spoke to @IQ_Mag last week about the organisation's fifth AGM, and why the EU's #DigitalServicesAct has been slow to help with fighting illegal ticket resale 🇪🇺 iq-mag.net/2024/10/feat-dsa-…

A pleasure to welcome FEAT members back to Barcelona for our fifth (and most important) AGM yet! Discussions on the EU's #DigitalServicesAct so far, the role of search engines in directing fans to illegal ticket listings, future legislation and the @MakeTicketsFair campaign 🎟️

Despite a crackdown on ticket scalping, it only takes two minutes to find a top-end ticket to see Oasis in Melbourne listed on Viagogo for over AU$ 3,600 (€2,247) 🤔 with plenty more listed higher than 10%! @Steve_Dimo @VicGovAu @LiveNationAU theticketingbusiness.com/202…

Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino said surging sales of Oasis tickets on the secondary market illustrate the need for Congress to step in and regulate the industry trib.al/kmxJ3kV

Known as 'speculative ticketing', resellers will list tickets they don't yet possess at massively inflated prices - and fans risk paying for tix that don't exist 😓 With little way to get compensation, we recommend buying from the authorised ticketing platform for the concert!

Police in India are investigating an alleged ticket touting scam relating to @Coldplay’s forthcoming concerts in Mumbai. iq-mag.net/2024/10/indian-po…

The @youmeatsix farewell tour has partnered with @tixelofficial to say farewell to ticket touts! Resale on Tixel is capped at face value 10% which allows sellers to cover additional costs like booking fees & admin charges. Read more @MusicWeek ⤵️ musicweek.com/live/read/tixe…

Pleased to see that @IronMaiden are capping ticket resale at face value in the UK for their 2025 world tour. What a huge success it would be to see them do the same for the rest of their European dates! #IronMaiden #RunForYourLivesWorldTour #Eddie #MakeTicketsFair

Today's excellent panel at Reeperbahn '24 covered important & relevant ticketing issues, including whether the EU's #DigitalServicesAct is being effectively enforced and if it's now time for a Europe-wide ban on ticket resale for profit! 🇪🇺

BREAKING: An investigation has been launched by the Competition and Markets Authority into Ticketmaster over the sale of Oasis concert tickets. More: trib.al/7i4OTr6 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube