Ticket touts employing workers to bulk-buy for concerts

Cartels are employed by teams of workers to be tickets in the largest concerts in the UK like Oasis and Taylor Swift, so they can be presented for profit, the BBC investigation was found.

We have been discovered that some show “millions” employ people abroad, known as “tickets”, with one punishment in the secret journalist of his team bought hundreds of tickets to Swift’s Eras Tour last year.

Our reporter, posing as potentially, secretly filmed the Head of Ticket’s Withdrawal of Pakistan who said they could set the team for us and potentially buy hundreds of tickets.

UK Government Plans New TOUSTRA BRANCH LEGISLATION But critics claim not to go far enough.

Soon after pre-sales, where the number of fans could have purchased Oasis Tickets When in August entered salesTickets for their UK concerns are listed on resale websites like Stubhub and Viagogo for More than £ 6,000 – About 40 times the greater value of the Support’s map.

We discovered true fans missed or, in despair, who finished payment through the chance as they do the docmonds of people working for them to buy tickets for the most events in search of the most favorable events as soon as they are sold.

But, the head of the ticket drag company, praised with our reporting in a secret secret reporse that it is successful in providing tickets for popular gigs.

“I think we had 300 Coldplay tickets and then we had an oasis in the same week – we dry great,” he told us he told us that he told us.

But he claimed he knew about UK Tout, who gave more than 500,000 pounds last year, and it thought that others “create millions”.

Our research found moves to buy tickets using illegal automated software and multiple identities that can amount to fraud.

Another head of tickets, based in India, said the BBC Wales is investigating the “secret reporter:” If I sit in your country and take my operations in your country, then it is completely illegal.

“We do not participate in illegal things, because we are actually, we are not outside the UK.”

The man who worked in the ticket industry almost 40 years showed us how he infiltrated the secret network group that he claimed to provide thousands of tickets using methods in adverse position.

Reg Walker said group members could generate 100,000 passages “Order” – efficiently allowing them to circumvent the software that creates network order for gigs.

He said to the BBC’s excellent program programs Carcit Off Ophalba, this was the equivalent of “100,000 people suddenly appears and pushing in front of you all right.”

He added: “If you are a company for a ticket and authorized resale company, and someone decides to list hundreds of high demand tickets … My question would be, where did you get the cards? There are no tickets?”

The fans are usually limited to a handful of tickets when purchasing with primary platforms such as Ticket-Master.

TOUTS often list their cards on resale websites and one former Viagogo employee stated several profiles with thousands of tickets for sale.

“They [touts] Buy most of the time hoping to resell and achieve profit, “he said, speaking in the state of anonymity.

“I don’t know how they are on them, but I know you would buy tickets at some point in difficult numbers.

“You don’t allow a lot of people to get access because you keep the tickets.”

Viagogo said that rejects the claims of this man, insisting that 73% of sellers were sold less than five tickets each – and other sellers included sports clubs and promoters.

It is not just music concerts that targeted while the BBC found evidence of thousands of premier league of football cards that are advertised illegally.

Since 1994. It is a criminal offense by reselling tickets for football matches in the UK, unless a maximum sentence of £ 1,000 is fine.

But we found 8,000 tickets that were illegally advertised online for more than the value on the face for Arsenal’s Prime Minister League with Chelsea at the Emirates Stadium 16. Marta.

One of these sellers was a semi-professional football player in the UK.

Bogdan Stolboushkin has openly advertised cards for football games in the total value of £ 60,000 on social media last year.

He sold our reporter one card in double face value.

Mr. Stolboushkin did not answer more attempts to contact him about these allegations.

Another potentially illegal practice in the UK is “speculative sales”, where TOUTS lists of cards for resale without ownership.

There is no guarantee that these flows will actually provide a map and “speculative sales” was one of the reasons two touts were closed for fraud 2020. years.

Our investigation has found at least 104 places that are “speculative” in Viagogu for Soffish and Concert in Botlemen at the Cardiff’s Stadium of Kneklenje.

There seemed to be accurate seats for sale at the same time and at the Mount-Umaster, the original sales site and Viagogo.

After we presented your evidence Viagogo, it was said: “The basis are made of our medium from the component.”

The UK government views measures to try and solve problems, but evidence of the challenges they face can be seen in Republic of Ireland.

In 2021. years there are laws presented to resale tickets above the value of the face, but the BBC discovered that this was white.

This included tickets to see the band Kleecap for sale four times during their face value from 59 € (£ 50), while tickets for six nations were sold in France in Dublin for £ 3,000 in France.

One of Ireland’s largest promoters, Peter Aiken said he never heard of the company that sells tickets and questioned whether the tickets were at all existed.

Many tickets for sale in Ireland are based abroad, which is the BBC said to avoid the penalty under Irish law.

Offices for resale tickets and regulation of resale platforms He was one of the Manifesta Sir Keir Starmers promised last year’s general elections.

Now the Prime Minister, Government in the UK held consultations With proposals that include a price cover that moves from the original price to 30% above the value of the face, introducing greater fines and a new licensing regime.

But Ladies Caroline Veleca, President of Cultural Cultural Cultural Culture, Media and Sports said, “It’s a mine field for people who just want to buy tickets for an event they want to enjoy karate.

“These evidence prove that there are not enough activities either from the government, in some cases of the police and certainly from these really great network organizations to be attached to this type of activity.”

The Conservative MP said that this investigation has emphasized “what a lot of consumers already see that there is a whole world in some cases illegal, but all cases of immoral activity happens in the sphere of tickets.”

“People need to pay the chances, because others often work outside the United Kingdom to sell them at a huge premium and in some cases selling cards that do not exist at all,” she added.

The aim of the Government in the UK is “Strengthen Consumer Protection and Stop Fans Taken”, according to the Secretary of Culture in the UK.

Lisa Nandi added that she wanted to “ensure that money spent on the maps returning to our incredible sectors of living events, instead of in pockets of greedy touts.”