Petition · past parliament
Stop ticket touts in the UK reselling concert tickets for extortionate prices
Rejected
19 signatures
What the petition asks
In the UK there are 4 major ticket resellers, StubHub, Ticketmaster Get Me In, Viagogo and Seatwave. They use specialist software to harvest thousands of tickets from primary ticket selling sites and resell them at extortionate prices. Taking money from the music industry and tickets from real fans
This website outlines exactly what ticket touting means and why it should be stopped
http://fanfairalliance.org/faqs/
http://fanfairalliance.org/faqs/
Why it was rejected
There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.
This petition is similar to yours:
Stop the resale of concert tickets at inflated prices on secondary websites.
Stop the resale of concert tickets at inflated prices on secondary websites.
Timeline
| 6 Feb 2017 | Petition opened for signatures |
| 10 Feb 2017 | Rejected by the Petitions Committee |
Key facts
Signatures
19
Status
Rejected
Rejected
10 Feb 2017
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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 15 Jul 2026.