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Post by Paul H (Vidcapper) on Feb 14, 2020 7:07:35 GMT 1
Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but here we go... Internet ticket touts who used bots to buy thousands of tickets to events including Ed Sheeran and Taylor Swift concerts then re-sold them for £7million profit are guilty of fraud in landmark trial Peter Hunter, 51, and David Smith, 66, used multiple identities to sell tickets They used bots to buy tickets for £4m and sold them on websites for £10.8m Prosecution is first of its kind in UK since investigation of reselling tickets began www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8001035/Internet-ticket-touts-used-bots-buy-thousands-tickets-events-guilty-fraud.html*********************************** Hope they make a real example of them - they make it so much harder/more expensive for genuine fans to get tickets!  |
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Post by Whitneyfan on Feb 14, 2020 8:09:23 GMT 1
Oh good. This practice has been going on for far too long - it's a total rip-off and completely unfair to fans who miss out because these greedy companies buy all the tickets up in the first few minutes they go on sale.
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Post by suedehead on Feb 14, 2020 9:04:31 GMT 1
I’ve always hated the practice of people buying tickets with the sole intention of selling them at a profit. The internet has just meant that people could by hundreds of tickets rather than just a few as in the past. Before the internet, I used get a great feeling of satisfaction whenever I saw touts who had misjudged demand trying to sell tickets for less than their face value.
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Post by o on Feb 14, 2020 11:21:51 GMT 1
There has to be more than these two blokes out there, but it's a start!
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Feb 14, 2020 12:11:25 GMT 1
Its shocking when a 30,000 gig for an act that hasn't had a top 100 single in 15 years "sell out" in 8 seconds.
These people are scum but have been allowed to do this for decades, My Chemical Romance are playing 3 gigs back to back in Huddersfield as they all sold out instantly so now tens of thousands of tickets are up for £300
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Post by Panda on Feb 14, 2020 13:12:44 GMT 1
If they had £4 million kicking around to begin with, I wonder if they have other lines of "work"? A bit like that ice cream van that would still go round the council estate on Christmas Day.
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Post by o on Feb 14, 2020 13:45:58 GMT 1
I hope their assets have been frozen!
Maybe they could be used to buy tickets for everyone that missed out on the original gig.
I'm sure there are simple measures that could be used if companies were forced to do it, but the govt seem reluctant, maybe because £300 for a ticket is peanuts to them...
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Post by suedehead on Feb 14, 2020 14:39:55 GMT 1
I hope their assets have been frozen! Maybe they could be used to buy tickets for everyone that missed out on the original gig. I'm sure there are simple measures that could be used if companies were forced to do it, but the govt seem reluctant, maybe because £300 for a ticket is peanuts to them... There are too many people wedded to the idea that this is simply market forces at work. |
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Feb 14, 2020 17:27:48 GMT 1
If the venue gets 100% ticket sales and the government get the maximum possible in tax then the only chumps that care are the ones who want to buy tickets, everyone else wins, the venue, the government, the scalpers
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Post by TheThorne on Feb 14, 2020 17:38:22 GMT 1
The band dont really win playing to half empty venues kinda sucks but I didnt even try and get MCR tickets as I knew it would be impossible but what you are saying is just crazy
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Post by Mic1812 on Feb 15, 2020 14:48:19 GMT 1
Hope they rot in jail.
Next to sort out is this practise of paying £3 or more for a booking fee of using your own phone to do it
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Post by Razzle Dazzle on Feb 15, 2020 15:13:39 GMT 1
Pearl Jam took on the ticketing industry in the 90's, they took them to court but the media covered it as a novelty story without giving any weight to the band’s charges that consumers were being ripped off. It didn’t help that other bands were reluctant to join the crusade and they stood alone against a global monopoly, they argued nobody should pay more than a £1.50 booking fee, at the time in 1995 they were charging upto $8 in booking fees
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