Property News · March 11, 2017

Ministers to criminalise use of ticket tout 'harvesting' software


Exclusive: Touts face unlimited fines in move to curb resale of tickets at huge mark-ups before fans can buy them Touts who use computer software to harvest concert tickets in bulk and resell them at vast mark-ups face unlimited fines as part of a crackdown on highly profitable resale sites such as Viagogo, StubHub and GetMeIn.The Department of Culture, Media and Sport will announce a package of measures to curb the growing power of the so-called “secondary ticketing” industry, which now regularly offers tickets at huge mark-ups, even before they are available to the general public. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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