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Post by Fat Reg on Jan 10, 2008 5:03:07 GMT -5
Once again, after much debate a government committee has done sweet FA. In this case, they have rejected the idea of banning online ticket touts, despite recognising that there are "dubious practices" in place among some agencies. Instead they have recommended that artists and venues profit from the proceeds of these inflated ticket sales. Stupidly, they seem to have targetted sites such as ebay, rather than the organised touting agencies which buy tickets in bulk purely in order to sell on at huge profits.
The simplest solution would have been to make the selling of tickets above face value an offence. But no, we've got the usual ineffectual waffle.
Glastonbury organiser Michael Eavis made the frankly daft suggestion of pre-registering and putting photos on tickets, which doesn't seem really practical - can you imagine the queues at venues as everyone has their photo checked on entering? It's one thing to pre-register for a big festival, quite another for a gig in a smaller venue where you may not decide months in advance that you're going.
One thing's for certain, organised online touting will continue to blight the concert-going experience in this country.
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Post by DAN on Jan 10, 2008 14:40:59 GMT -5
So if these agencies give up a slice of the profit to the artist/ venue are they gonna take that hit?
Or just possibly up their already ludicrous prices?
Tricky huh?
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Post by ++kirk on Feb 26, 2008 8:27:47 GMT -5
making touting a capital offence might make some difference...or jus please me...either way im happy with it. but seriously the only thing they can really do is put restrictions on buying tickets but that fucks everyone over, like when you cant buy more than four tickets. it doesnt help for online touts but i think there should be some sort of security sorting out touts outside venues, however usefull they can be.
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Post by T8 on Mar 2, 2008 16:18:39 GMT -5
i agree just stop them selling the tickets over face value on sites such as ebay etc. how is that not a simple thing? seems easy to me then everyone still gets a ticket and doesnt get ripped off!!!
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