Submitted on Tuesday 21st February 2017
Rejected on Thursday 2nd March 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Make it illegal to sell concert tickets at inflated prices & buy just to profit
The buying and reselling of concert tickets at inflated prices means that genuine fans are unable to purchase tickets at face value or even at all in some cases. Fans are losing out because touts are buying tickets in bulk and reselling them on secondary websites at hugely inflated prices.
Also ticket sites like Ticketmaster seem to be actively encouraging it, even selling what they call 'Premium tickets' which are no different to seats available on other ticket sites.
We call on the government to insert a new clause into the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act to make it illegal for concert tickets to be sold at inflated prices, whether by touts or ticketing sites themselves and to make it illegal to purchase tickets with the sole intention of making a profit.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
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petition.parliament.uk/petitions/177071
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