Petition · past parliament

Stop ticket touts buying tickets for the purpose of reselling at a higher price.

Rejected 19 signatures

What the petition asks

Those of us who go to concerts are fed up with trying to get tickets for shows, only to find that the show is sold out and most of the tickets are now on tout websites being sold at prices much higher than the original asking price.
Ticketmaster will recommend sites such as getmein if they have sold out of tickets. This needs to stop. People should only be allowed to sell tickets for the same price that they paid for them.

Why it was rejected

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Timeline

18 Sep 2015 Petition opened for signatures
23 Sep 2015 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 19
Status Rejected
Rejected 23 Sep 2015

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.