BREAKING: An investigation has been launched by the Competition and Markets Authority into Ticketmaster over the sale of Oasis concert tickets. More: trib.al/7i4OTr6 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602, Freeview 233 and YouTube

Today's excellent panel at Reeperbahn '24 covered important & relevant ticketing issues, including whether the EU's #DigitalServicesAct is being effectively enforced and if it's now time for a Europe-wide ban on ticket resale for profit! 🇪🇺

Pleased to see that Iron Maiden are capping ticket resale at face value in the UK for their 2025 world tour. What a huge success it would be to see them do the same for the rest of their European dates! #IronMaiden #RunForYourLivesWorldTour #Eddie #MakeTicketsFair

The You Me At Six farewell tour has partnered with tixel to say farewell to ticket touts! Resale on Tixel is capped at face value + 10% which allows sellers to cover additional costs like booking fees & admin charges. Read more Music Week ⤵️ musicweek.com/live/read/tixe…

Police in India are investigating an alleged ticket touting scam relating to Coldplay’s forthcoming concerts in Mumbai. iq-mag.net/2024/10/indian…

Known as 'speculative ticketing', resellers will list tickets they don't yet possess at massively inflated prices - and fans risk paying for tix that don't exist 😓 With little way to get compensation, we recommend buying from the authorised ticketing platform for the concert!

Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino said surging sales of Oasis tickets on the secondary market illustrate the need for Congress to step in and regulate the industry trib.al/kmxJ3kV

Despite a crackdown on ticket scalping, it only takes two minutes to find a top-end ticket to see Oasis in Melbourne listed on Viagogo for over AU$ 3,600 (€2,247) 🤔 with plenty more listed higher than 10%! Steve Dimopoulos MP Victorian Government Live Nation Australia theticketingbusiness.com/2024/10/14/oas…

A pleasure to welcome FEAT members back to Barcelona for our fifth (and most important) AGM yet! Discussions on the EU's #DigitalServicesAct so far, the role of search engines in directing fans to illegal ticket listings, future legislation and the Make Tickets Fair! campaign 🎟️

ICYMI: Sam Shemtob from FEAT spoke to IQ Magazine last week about the organisation's fifth AGM, and why the EU's #DigitalServicesAct has been slow to help with fighting illegal ticket resale 🇪🇺 iq-mag.net/2024/10/feat-d…

Chris Bryant, "Hang on, in the words of Shania Twain: that don't impress me much" Chris Bryant takes on inflated ticket prices 👏 "There's no point in bringing forward new laws if you can't enforce them" "Whenever I post about this on Twitter, or X, or whatever, people come

Tickets sold on unauthorised resale sites, at extortionate prices and against the promoter's wishes, will now be re-listed on Ticketmaster at face value. This is a step forward to prevent ticket touting at major events!

A deep dive into the secondary ticketing market in the UK, demonstrating the need for better regulation! 🎟️

Liverpool have undertaken a significant clampdown on ticket touting after shutting down almost 100,000 fake accounts and issuing 75 lifetime bans. The club also handed out 136 indefinite suspensions last season alone Read more from paul joyce ⬇️ thetimes.com/sport/football…

Our friends at FanFair Alliance report on an “industrial level of touting fraud rife on Viagogo with touts selling thousands of tickets they don’t own". Read the full story here: completemusicupdate.com/fanfair-allian…

This week, Barcelona City Council unanimously agreed to fight against illegal ticket resale and support the work of FEAT! Thank you to Francesc Xavier Marcé Carol for putting forward the motion. Ajuntament de Barcelona TheTicketingBusiness Doctor Music theticketingbusiness.com/2024/11/21/cit…

Across the pond from Europe, tix to see Kendrick Lamar are being resold before they go on sale in Arizona – despite the State banning speculative ticketing only eight months ago! Another example of dodgy practice by StubHub #MakeTicketsFair

With ⁦Keir Starmer⁩ already pledging to crack down on touts, it’s nuts that ⁦viagogo⁩ behaves like this: Scots targeted in 'spec selling' scam on Viagogo as con artists rip off fans ⁦FanFair Alliance⁩ ⁦Pete Wishart⁩ dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scots-tar…

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UK Govt. launches consultation on ticket resale 🎟️. Includes: - Cap on the price tix can be resold (between face value & 30%) - ⬆️ fines on resale platforms that break the law - Give accurate info to fans - or face consequences Sharon Hodgson FanFair Alliance