Petition

Make it a legal requirement that resale of event tickets must be face value

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

Endless fans are being priced out of events by touts using bots to buy tickets then reselling them on sites such as viagogo for heavily inflated prices. This should not be allowed and any resale should only be allowed at face value.
Make it a legal requirement that all resale of event tickets are advertised and sold at face value only. There is no reason why this cannot be done. Should someone want/need to resell a ticket then the original purchase price should visable to people wanting to buy and the ticket should only be sold at this price. Sites and individuals should be punished for attempting to sell at inflated prices.

Why it was rejected

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

You may wish to sign the following petition: Ban Reselling Tickets for Above Face-Value and Dynamic Pricing

Timeline

16 Nov 2024 Petition opened for signatures
13 Dec 2024 Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21
Status Rejected
Rejected 13 Dec 2024

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Source: the official petition page. Last checked 28 Jul 2026.