Submitted on Thursday 3rd September 2020
Rejected on Monday 5th October 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: irrelevant (see below for details)
End university fresher scamming
1. Make it a legal requirement for people who get profits from the sale of an event to clearly state they do when advertising or supporting it.
2. Make it a legal requirement to clearly state whether a university freshers page or chat is run by a profiting company and the details of this profit.
Tens of thousands of university freshers each year are encouraged to buy event tickets from hired employees of marketing companies, who pretend to be friendly fellow offer holding university students. This means they cannot make their own informed opinion on buying the tickets. Offer holder pages also alter an offer holders reputation of that university’s students when these employees act rude when people do not buy their tickets.
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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
We can't accept your petition because the UK Government and Parliament aren't responsible for the issue you raise. Advertising, including the clear labeling of adverts, is a matter for the Advertising Standards Agency, who are independnet of the UK Government and Parliament.
You can find out more here:
www.asa.org.uk/
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