Our mission is to bring awareness about the plague that is affecting out gigs, concerts and festivals - the touts. We will have advice on how to deal with them and show which sites are used by the touts.

Q&A: Ticket touting

With the issue of ticket touting a hot topic, what issues do genuine music fans face while buying a concert ticket?

What's it all about then...

The final straw was when the tickets were released for the Carling Weekend Festivals at Reading and Leeds. Hundreds and thousands of people save up all year and wait to buy their tickets, only to be pipped to the post by touts and people who buy the tickets only to sell them on as profit.

Ticket to Hide

Sun, 12/09/2007 - 11:20 — Kieran

A short twenty minute documentary about ticket touting from the BBC-1Xtra.

What does this documentary cover?

  • Who are the touts and why do they do it?
  • How do they operate?
  • Legality
  • Are they really exploiting the fans or giving them a genuine secondary market for tickets?
  • Government stance on touts
  • What is being done

Minister demands eBay ticket bar

Mon, 05/14/2007 - 14:38 — admin

More than 500,000 people applied for tickets. The government has requested that online auction site eBay remove tickets for BBC Radio 1's Big Weekend event.

How Glastonbury 'beat the touts'

Thu, 05/03/2007 - 09:01 — admin

Glastonbury founder Michael Eavis explains why the photo ID scheme in place for this year's festival could mean the death of the ticket tout.

The economics of ticket touting

Thu, 05/03/2007 - 08:58 — admin

Ticket touts are a growing problem for music fans desperate to get their hands on a ticket to see their favourite band. Princeton University's Professor Alan Krueger explains the economics behind buying and selling tickets on the secondary market.

If you go to a concert by The Police, U2 or Madonna, there is about a one in four chance you purchased your prized ticket from a tout.

It is a figure Professor Alan Krueger - described as "the world's first and foremost professor of rockonomics" - says many people find surprising.

MPs launch ticket touts inquiry

Thu, 05/03/2007 - 08:53 — admin

Ticket touts are to be the subject of a government inquiry, the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee has said.The new probe will look at touting at music, cultural and sporting events, and is seeking views from the live music industry.It will focus on a number of points, including the impact of internet auction sites, and if tickets should be allowed to be sold above face value.Last year the government said it had "no plans" to make touting illegal.

Touting: A chance to have your opinions heard

Thu, 05/03/2007 - 08:49 — admin

The Culture, Media, and Sport Parliament Select Committee have announced that they are going to conduct an investigation into ticket touting.

News articles can be found: here and here

Ticket touts face the music

Fri, 04/20/2007 - 15:30 — admin

What have bands, artists, festival promoters and other music events done to try and thwart ticket touts and fraudsters? Here are some examples.

Stop Touts

Thu, 04/19/2007 - 16:16 — admin

Right...

  • Have you ever tried to buy a ticket for an event, only to see it sell-out in minutes?
  • Were you frustrated that minutes later hundreds or even thousands were for sale on Internet auction sites at vastly inflated Prices?
  • Have you ever bought a ticket to an event months in advance, only to find closer to the event that you couldn’t make it?
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