All posts belonging to the Scalping tag can be found in the list below.
Social media users have rounded on a tout who claimed to have funded a family holiday by selling Peter Kay tickets at a huge profit and then pocketing the refund when the comedian’s tour was cancell...
Tags: Cancellation, Comedy, Peter Kay, Refund, Scalping, Tout, TwitterAn Australian man has become the fourth person to be arrested in Singapore in relation to forged concert tickets at an Ed Sheeran concert. Paul Cosgrove was one of the four men that obtained fake ...
Tags: Arrested, Ed Sheeran, Forged, Scalping, Singapore, ToutsJapan’s government plans to submit a bill that seeks to control online ticket resale and tackle touting in the country ahead of the 2020 Olympic Games. It is hoped that the regulations would be i...
Tags: Anti-Touting, Japan, Law, Legislation, LOC, Olympic Games, Scalping, Tokyo 2020, ToutsTicketmaster has warned Taylor Swift fans in the UK and Ireland not to share screenshots of their concert tickets ahead of next summer’s Reputation tour. Hundreds of thousands of tickets have alr...
Tags: Access Code, Counterfeit, Scalping, Screenshot, Taylor Swift, Ticketmaster, TourThe Rugby Football Union (RFU) has launched its own official ticket exchange in an effort to combat touts. Rugby union’s governing body in England has made it clear in a statement that resale web...
Tags: Resale, RFU, Rugby, rugby union, Scalping, Secondary Market, Ticket Exchange, Touts, TwickenhamThe Canadian province of Ontario has announced plans for legislation that will clamp down on online ticket scalping into a wider consumer-protection bill. The Liberal government said that automated...
Tags: bot legislation, Bots, Canada, Face Value, Legislation, Ontario, Resale Laws, Scalping, Secondary MarketThe New South Wales (NSW) government has announced plans to cap the price of resold tickets at 10 per cent, in a move that could redefine the secondary ticketing sector in Australia. In changes to ...
Tags: Australia, Cap, Face Value, Legislation, NSW, Scalping, ToutingTicketmaster International’s senior vice-president of insight and marketing has criticised MPs for involving themselves in public concern about the secondary ticketing market. In a speech at the ...
Tags: MPs, Parliament, Scalping, TicketmasterThe Foo Fighters and their promoters have defended the ticketing process that saw hundreds of fans turned away from their O2 gig on Tuesday. Many Foo Fighters fans were told they could not enter th...
Tags: Dave Grohl, Foo Fighters, ID Checks, London, Resale, Scalping, Secondary Market, SJM, The O2, ToutsVerified Fan has a 90-per-cent success rate in identifying ticket bots according to Live Nation chief executive Michael Rapino. Described as “a really big robot” by Rapino in an interview on th...
Tags: Live Nation, Scalping, Share Price, Technology, Ticketmaster, Touts, Verified Fan