This petition was submitted during the 2019-2024 parliament
Rejected petition Make the use of “Bots” and "scalper" illegal for highly sought after tickets
scalping/bot illegal buying tickets or other items website like viagogo and stubhub should not allow tickets to be sold for any more then the going price for original tickets or even at all for the safety of the costmer. Should be illegal for anyone to buy so much tickets for the soul to sell it
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I believe it to be an unfair and unjust practice that well funded groups/individuals can deplete the stock of a single item and make it unaffordable/unavailable to the average consumer. I believe the law around this practice needs to be reviewed and measures to prevent it need to be introduced. This practice is most prevalent in the buying and re-selling of event tickets
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.
Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.
We understand that you are concerned about the purchase and resale of certain items, but we're not sure exactly what you'd like the Government or Parliament to do.
It's not clear if you want the Government to impose restrictions on the purchase or sale of certain items, and if you want these restrictions to just apply to event tickets, or also other items.
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