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https://www.theguardian.com/money/2025/nov/19/ticket-touts-worst-nightmare-has-finally-come-true-in-the-uk
Good news, hopefully. It’s going to save me £112m per year which is brilliant.
About time too. However, I assume it will still happen ‘unofficially’.
The last time I bought a tiket from a tout was 1991 and I got it half price because they’d over bought.
Now, if the government could just do something about Ticketmaster’s “fees” and dynamic pricing, we’d all be better off.
Ideally they would put all tickets on sale in one batch and allow those that are most interested to buy them. As it stands the slicing of tickets amongst “pre-sales” and the variations in pricing ‘platinum seats’ simply work against the fan. If you care enough to be on line when the tickets are first sold, you should be able to purchase the beat seats that will be available. But that wouldn’t maximise sales value.
Nothing wrong with reducing the prices closer to the date if seats haven’t sold but if you’ve charged top dollar for a worse seat bought earlier due to splitting up the seats between sellers and tiers, that’s less than ideal for the fans.
This probably applies to larger arena / stadium shows.
No objection to large scale fan pre sales and to a certain allocation of tickets going in sponsor pre-sales, but here in Ireland it’s now reaching the point where hardly any seats are available in the general sale
It doesn’t apply to football
Or apparently to tickets sold by owners of debentures
at Wimbledon – as a lot of AWers obviously are
Be interesting to see how they manage to enforce it ..
I don’t really understand it so I presume there’s massive loopholes, not always the case of coursec
I would love it to work but I expect it’s going to fail.
Don’t think this would have had any effect on the price of £140 asked to see robots masquerading as Kraftwerk. Would like to have seen the show but didn’t compare favourably with the £40 to see the ABBA holograms.