All posts belonging to the Touts tag can be found in the list below.
English Premier League football club Chelsea has launched an undercover operation to tackle ticket touts, with the crackdown already seeing one man sent to jail for six months. The operation, which...
Tags: Chelsea, Premier League, Resale, ToutsThe All Japan Concert and Live Entertainment Promoters Conference (ACPC) has called for an overhaul of the Japanese ticketing system. The Japanese promoters’ association issued a statement titled...
Tags: APCP, Japan, Resale, Secondary Market, ToutsA lack of legislation in the UK to tackle unofficial ticketing resale providers has “restricted” efforts by the organisers of the ongoing Men’s Cricket World Cup to take “preventative action,...
Tags: Cricket World Cup, Edgbaston, Resale, Secondary Market, ToutsGerman rock band Rammstein have continued their war on touts by urging fans to steer clear of resale sites after claims passes for their 2020 European tour dates were being offered within hours of goi...
Tags: Rammstein, Resale, Tour, Touts, ViagogoTouts are responsible for almost 90 per cent of ticket listings on Viagogo, according to an investigation by the Daily Record. The Scottish newspaper looked at 25 major upcoming gigs at Scotland’...
Tags: CMA, Fanfair Alliance, Resale, Touts, Traders, ViagogoCouncil chiefs in North Yorkshire have failed to act on a court ruling ordering them to change their ticket reselling enforcement policies more than two months after they lost a case they brought agai...
Tags: CMA, Fines, North Yorkshire County Council, ToutsItalian primary ticketing service TicketOne has threatened to take action against the country’s competition regulator AGCM unless it enforces laws designed to constrain the secondary market. In a...
Tags: AGCM, Italy, Legal, Resale, Secondary Market, TicketOne, ToutsAction Fraud is urging people to “take more care” when buying tickets to live events as it reports victims lose an average of £365 (€409/$462) to ticket fraud each year. The UK’s national ...
Tags: Action Fraud, Fraud, Resale, STAR, ToutsFour touts have had significant fines quashed on appeal despite admitting to UK consumer rights breaches over seat number requirements after officials failed to follow procedural rules. North Yorks...
Tags: Appeals, CMA, North Yorkshire County Council, Resale, Secondary, ToutsRoss Martin, Barclays’ head of digital safety, has warned ticket-buyers about touts ahead of the festival season, following new research from the financial services firm. The research found that ...
Tags: Barclays, Festivals, Fraud, Safety, STAR, Touts
