7 years ago
Ticket touts face unlimited fines for using 'bots' to buy in bulk
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.
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Does that headline make sense to anybody? I keep reading it and it doesn't really work for me. Anyways, I can't wait for the day this robot thing is halted, Suntrust Park has it's first game ever coming up and whatever tickets were available were supposed to be sold the other day at around 10:00 AM and at something like 10:01 there were none.
I don't believe that resale should be illegal, but just like scalping the only legal way is to sell for face value.