These improvements can happen without the burden of new regulation, by criminalising fans who want to buy tickets for sold-out events or sell tickets that they cannot use.Yes that's right. You bought a ticket to a gig and you can't go anymore and you want to sell it to a mate or put it on eBay? Well you're can't, you're going to be criminal for selling your own property. Even more so if you try to buy a ticket for a sold out event you'll be a criminal too.
Hat Tip: Croydonian
Update: Twilight Zone time! Have just been told that the Government has said it is not proposing new legislation at all. Interestingly the wording of the press release has changed and now reads,
These improvements can happen without the burden of new regulation, or criminalising fans who want to buy tickets for sold-out events or sell tickets that they cannot use.What a difference one tiny word makes to the entire meaning? Quickest U-Turn in history? Or just a cock-up by a press officer?
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You know it'll be people selling on a ticket they can't use to a mate who'll get caught as well, not the touts. Why can't the organisers who put on concerts and sporting matches take a bit more responsibility and refuse to sell tickets to touts? It can't be that hard to indentify them, they hang around on the streets outside the stadiums ffs.
Cock up by press officer.
It's a good job this hatred of the free market doesn't extend to food and drink, otherwise we'd all starve.
Oh, I forgot! Football is more important than food and drink.
I think you deserve a bit of congratulations for "foregrounding" the "person who can't go to gig sells his ticket at cost price to best mate" angle ... you may well have saved us all (well some of us anyway, at least those with slightly flawed babysitting arrangements) quite a lot of court fees, fines etc.
U-turn and cock-up. As with everything this lot do, put out the sound bite, then bury the bad news. And certainly don't actually do anything sensible about it.
Quickest U-Turn in history? Or just a cock-up by a press officer?
errrm , the first one.
I believe that trade in football tickets is already specifically outlawed. Brought in by Mrs T I think.
Didn't they make it illegal a few years ago to resell tickets for football (apparently for crowd control reasons) or the 2012 Olympics (no idea why), though not other sports or gigs?
I reckon it's just a cock up, personally, as the rest of the document wouldn't make sense with "by" instead of "or".
Plus, as it seems to follow on from this (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7179834.stm) piece from January, I doubt it would be a U-turn.
Could be wrong though. Have been before.
This proposal is simply outrageous, Dizzy and one more instance of PC gone mad. He sits back thinking gee - let's protect ticket buyers. I know - we'll introduce some draconian legislation - first knee jerk reaction. Prat.
Agree with silas.
And the problem with ticket-touts is ?
Whatever it is, there are a zillion more important things for the Gvmnt to do, starting with "Hold a referendum"
GRRRRRRRR
You could of course read the actual document the press release refers to, Dizzy.
Why? I'm writing about what the press release said.
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