This petition was submitted during the 2015-2017 parliament
Rejected petition Make it a criminal offence to re-sell event tickets for a profit
In past years, there has been an increased demand for online ticketing for mainstream events. In a lot of instances - mostly music concerts - this has led to people buying multiple tickets to re-sell for profit. Thus depriving people genuinely looking to attend the event from getting tickets.
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In the last 72 hours, Ed Sheeran has released tickets for his UK tour. These were sold as a pre-sale on Tuesday 31st January and Wednesday 1st February, followed by general release on Thursday 2nd February.
My wife tried on all three occasions to get tickets and was unsuccessful - that's par for the course.
However, there are a number of sellers on eBay who are selling tickets for Ed's shows at four times face value. This is unacceptable and morally wrong.
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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/177071
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