{"id":89921,"date":"2018-05-30T18:02:24","date_gmt":"2018-05-30T11:02:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/minister-urges-boycott-of-viagogo-the-worst-secondary-ticketing-site\/"},"modified":"2018-05-30T19:04:09","modified_gmt":"2018-05-30T12:04:09","slug":"minister-urges-boycott-of-viagogo-the-worst-secondary-ticketing-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/minister-urges-boycott-of-viagogo-the-worst-secondary-ticketing-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Minister urges boycott of Viagogo, the 'worst' secondary ticketing site"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nSite faces sanction by the Advertising Standards Authority for persistently breaching rulesDigital minister Margot James has urged consumers to boycott ticket website Viagogo, saying they should not buy concert and event tickets from the company.The minister\u2019s warning \u2013 a rare instance of a government minister singling out a specific company for criticism \u2013 comes as the Geneva-based company braces for possible sanctions for breaches of advertising rules. These could include having its listings pulled from search engines such as Google. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Site faces sanction by the Advertising Standards Authority for persistently breaching rulesDigital minister Margot James...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-nol","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":46065,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/viagogo-ticket-rip-off-concerns-reach-parliament-as-may-promises-crackdown\/","url_meta":{"origin":89921,"position":0},"title":"Viagogo ticket rip-off concerns reach parliament as May promises crackdown","date":"March 1, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Prime minister vows to fix ticket resale market after a surge in complaints against resellers over inflated prices and refundsTicket resale sites such as Viagogo and StubHub are facing a crackdown after the prime minister said they \u201ccause problems\u201d for genuine fans and vowed to fix markets that don\u2019t\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "Property News"","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":89957,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/is-viagogo-one-of-the-worst-businesses-in-britain\/","url_meta":{"origin":89921,"position":1},"title":"Is Viagogo one of the worst businesses in Britain?","date":"May 30, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Secondary ticketing site faces investigation after criticism of its sky-high mark-upsViagogo was founded by Eric Baker, a Harvard graduate from a wealthy business dynasty, who had previously set up another ticketing firm, StubHub. 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