New rules to make it illegal to resell tickets for live events above original cost

Resale tickets to be £37 cheaper on average, saving fans collectively £112 million per year

Measures will end business model of industrial-scale ticket touting

Music and sport fans will no longer be ripped off on the ticket resale market thanks to new measures which will destroy the operating model of ticket touts.

The Government has today (19th November) announced plans to make it illegal for tickets to concerts, theatre, comedy, sport and other live events to be resold for more than their original cost.

Ticket touting has become increasingly sophisticated in recent years. Touts buy large volumes of tickets online, often using automated bots, before relisting them on resale platforms at hugely inflated

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