This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Make online ticket touting illegal.
For most major sports events, music concerts, etc., the tickets are sold online.
For popular events, touts use automated software "bots" to buy tickets by the hundred, for the sole purpose of reselling them at inflated prices.
This practice amounts to legalised robbery, and must be made illegal.
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For the forthcoming Chris Eubank Jr v Conor Benn fight, it was announced that tickets would go on sale at a specific time.
From that time, all 20000 tickets were sold out in ten minutes. This is simply not possible, unless they were being bought en masse.
Another ten minutes later, thousands of tickets appeared for resale on another web site, at three or four times their face value.
The practice of mass buying of tickets, for the sole purpose of reselling them for profit, must be stopped!
This petition was rejected
Why was this petition rejected?
It’s not clear what the petition is asking the UK Government or Parliament to do.
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We're not sure exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do. We're not sure whether you want all ticket resales to be prohibited, or only those where tickets are being sold for more than face value.
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