Make it illegal for tickets to any live UK event to be sold at above face value.

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

It is increasingly difficult to buy tickets for popular events due to tickets being purchased with the express intention of reselling at a higher price. Ticket agencies endorse this behaviour by establishing companies that allow above face value resale, e.g. Ticketmaster and Getmein.

An example of this is that Ticketmaster sold tickets for a 1 July 2018 show by rock band Queen + Adam Lambert in advance of the official announcement of the show, even before it was on the venue (SSE Arena, Wembley) website. Currently, two hours after the sale started, there are 96 tickets selling for almost twice the face value: https://www.getmein.com/tickets/queen-adam-lambert-tickets/london-323825.html.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

Change the law to ban the resale of tickets for more than their face value

Timeline

8 Feb 2018	Petition opened for signatures
13 Feb 2018	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 13 Feb 2018

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