No more sky-high resales as fans finally beat the ticket touts

Nandy 'putting fans first' in ticketing shake-up

- by David McLean

The band Bastille has been very vocal in their opposition to the ticket touts.

New rules making it illegal to resell tickets for live events for profit will end the “industrial-scale” touting that has caused misery for millions of fans, the Government has said.

Ministers have confirmed plans to make it illegal for tickets to concerts, theatre, comedy, sport and other live events to be resold for more than their original cost.

The Labour manifesto promised stronger protections to stop consumers being scammed or priced out of events by touts, who frequently use bots to buy tickets in bulk the moment they go on sale, which they can then sell on for huge markups on secondary ticketing websites.

The proposed rules make it illegal for tickets to be sold at a price above the face value - defined as the original price plus unavoidable fees including service charges.

Service fees will be capped to prevent the price limit being undermined by platforms, which will have a legal duty to monitor and enforce compliance.

Individuals will be banned from reselling more tickets than they were entitled to buy in the initial sale.