Submitted on Friday 20th January 2012
Rejected on Wednesday 21st June 2017
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Re-assess the laws on ticket touting for cultural and sporting events
This petition calls for an outlaw on ticket touting for all cultural and sporting events.
This issue is a great source of anger and frustration for huge numbers of real fans and supporters who are prevented from attending events due to the profiteering of certain individuals and companies. These people purchase large numbers of tickets for events and resell them at prices that can be absurd. Within minutes of tickets going on sale, they can be found on the internet advertised and five or ten times their original price. This has to be prevented.
This behaviour has already been outlawed for Football events, and there is no justifiable reason not to extend this legislation to cover all other events. It is grossly unfair, especially at a time of economic hardship, that real fans and supporters are prevented from going to concerts, festivals, matches etc, by the extortionate resale of tickets.
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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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