Secondary Ticket Sale Sites

[Sylar]

How are these companies allowed to continue to operate?

Sites like Seatwave, Viagogo, Getmein etc are providing an official avenue for ticket touts to utterly screw fans out of stupid amounts of money.

Whilst they themselves act as a 'marketplace' for exchanges between people, they are providing a front for touting and are surely an accessory to their activities?

Seatwave, who are bloody owned by Ticketmaster, are selling tickets for a show I fancied going to but didn't notice being announced at the time - Ticketmaster were selling the tickets at face value (£23.40) and Seatwave are selling the same seats for £150 each!

I don't understand why these sites continue to operate without regulation.

[RyeSloan]

How are these companies allowed to continue to operate? Sites like Seatwave, Viagogo, Getmein etc are providing an official avenue for ticket touts to utterly screw fans out of stupid amounts of money. Whilst they themselves act as a 'marketplace' for exchanges between people, they are providing a front for touting and are surely an accessory to their activities? Seatwave, who are bloody owned by Ticketmaster, are selling tickets for a show I fancied going to but didn't notice being announced at the time - Ticketmaster were selling the tickets at face value (£23.40) and Seatwave are selling the same seats for £150 each! I don't understand why these sites continue to operate without regulation.

Regulation is one answer, the other is for people to stop paying stupid sums of money for tickets! With no takers for tickets at daft prices these sites would be left with just genuine peer to peer exchanges.

It clearly is an organised scam though so quite how they have avoided being brought to task to date I'm not really sure.

[Moulin Yarns]

Regulation is one answer, the other is for people to stop paying stupid sums of money for tickets! With no takers for tickets at daft prices these sites would be left with just genuine peer to peer exchanges.

It clearly is an organised scam though so quite how they have avoided being brought to task to date I'm not really sure.

I heard recently about one of those sites offering tickets for Adele at £4,000. But when asked by the media they claimed no one ever paid these prices, and they might go for around £100. So the question wasn't asked, why advertise them at the vastly inflated price?