The promoter of American rock singer Bruce Springsteen's February concert in Christchurch has insisted it is the New Zealand government’s responsibility to tackle the scourge of online ticket scalping.
Brent Eccles, a spokesperson for Australia-based concert promoter Frontier Touring, told Radio NZ that ticket scalping remains a “cancer” for the music industry.
Tickets for Springsteen’s performance through official channels sold out in minutes, only for tickets to then emerge at sky-high prices on secondary ticketing websites.
“It's really becoming quite a hot topic and we have made representations to the Commerce Commission but they don't even understand it, so it's a bit difficult,” Eccles said.
Frontier Touring has posted an anti-scalping message on Facebook and listed several websites that are “not authorised by Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band to sell tickets for their Australia and New Zealand tour”. The websites include eBay, Gumtree, Queen of Tickets, Ticketblaster, Ticketmaster Resale, Ticket Merchant and Viagogo.
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