Government backs regulation of secondary ticketing

[Michael Browne]

The secondary ticketing market, which allows fans to resell unwanted gig tickets,

will become more transparent and potentially safer to use,

after the government agreed on 24 February to back legislation that seeks to protect fans from fraud.

 

 

The proposals also aim to counter the issue of professional touts buying tickets in bulk

and reselling them at inflated prices through secondary ticketing agencies.

 

The proposals,

collected together in an amendment to the consumer rights bill tabled by Conservative peer Lord Moynihan,

will ensure that fans buying tickets from reselling companies such as Viagogo, Stubhub and Seatwave

will know the precise details of the ticket they are purchasing (row, seat, face value, age restrictions, its original seller)

– currently not legally required

– helping to stamp out the sale of both counterfeit tickets and speculative tickets being sold on the secondary market

sometimes before they’re commercially available from event organisers.

 

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/feb/25/touts-suffer-blow-government-backs-regulation-secondary-ticketing

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I'd rather they were subject to the same rules on drip-pricing as everyone else. Bought a ticket on viagogo last month and it was listed at £125; had become £157.50 by the time I went to pay.