Make Tickets Fair!

Empowering live events fans across Europe to buy tickets safely.

[FEAT @FEAT_org]

UK Govt. launches consultation on ticket resale 🎟️.

Includes:
- Cap on the price tix can be resold (between face value & 30%)
- ⬆️ fines on resale platforms that break the law
- Give accurate info to fans - or face consequences

@SharonHodgsonMP @FanFairAlliance

[Make Tickets Fair! @MakeTicketsFair]

Please support this panel - it only takes a few minutes to cast your vote!

[FEAT @FEAT_org]

FEAT have put forward a submission for a panel on ticket resale at the first @sxswlondon2025, but it's the public who decide what they want to see.

https://t.co/SXAce9JgGJ

Read about the panel, and vote for us, here ⤴️ @SharonHodgsonMP @FanFairAlliance @ekhoscenes @NextAvocats

[markhmcgivern💜 @markhmcgivern]

With ⁦@Keir_Starmer⁩ already pledging to crack down on touts, it’s nuts that ⁦@viagogo⁩ behaves like this: Scots targeted in 'spec selling' scam on Viagogo as con artists rip off fans ⁦@FanFairAlliance⁩ ⁦@PeteWishart⁩ https://t.co/2JonxHgDnY

[Make Tickets Fair! @MakeTicketsFair]

Across the pond from Europe, tix to see @kendricklamar are being resold before they go on sale in Arizona – despite the State banning speculative ticketing only eight months ago! Another example of dodgy practice by @StubHub #MakeTicketsFair

[Sen. Analise Ortiz (@senanaliseortiz.bsky.social) @SenAnaliseOrtiz]

Concerned to see resellers&scalpers selling speculative tickets before they have even gone on sale to the public. This directly violates Arizona’s ban on this deceptive practice—the ban we passed under HB2194. Why is @StubHub allowing these listings in violation of state law?

[FEAT @FEAT_org]

This week, Barcelona City Council unanimously agreed to fight against illegal ticket resale and support the work of FEAT! Thank you to Francesc Xavier Marcé Carol for putting forward the motion. @bcn_ajuntament @TheTicketingBiz @DoctorMusicTuit

https://t.co/pp1XTJYSk0

[Twickets @Twickets]

Our friends at @FanFairAlliance report on an “industrial level of touting fraud rife on Viagogo with touts selling thousands of tickets they don’t own".

Read the full story here:

https://t.co/6cUpW4m3Oh

[Times Sport @TimesSport]

Liverpool have undertaken a significant clampdown on ticket touting after shutting down almost 100,000 fake accounts and issuing 75 lifetime bans. The club also handed out 136 indefinite suspensions last season alone

Read more from @_pauljoyce ⬇️
https://t.co/RCM52WCbSO

[Make Tickets Fair! @MakeTicketsFair]

A deep dive into the secondary ticketing market in the UK, demonstrating the need for better regulation! 🎟️

[BBC Current Affairs @BBC_CurrAff]

Gig Economy: The Ticketing Business

File on 4 investigates the online ticketing market and the increasingly sophisticated methods touts are using to get tickets which they sell-on for huge profits.

🎧 Listen on @BBCSounds.

https://t.co/NEpiiMR3O6

[Make Tickets Fair! @MakeTicketsFair]

Tickets sold on unauthorised resale sites, at extortionate prices and against the promoter's wishes, will now be re-listed on Ticketmaster at face value. This is a step forward to prevent ticket touting at major events!

[BBC Breakfast @BBCBreakfast]

Thousands of tickets sold on resale websites will be cancelled by Oasis ahead of their upcoming reunion tour.

https://t.co/3r8TTEarP6

[Farrukh @implausibleblog]

Chris Bryant, "Hang on, in the words of Shania Twain: that don't impress me much"

@RhonddaBryant takes on inflated ticket prices 👏

"There's no point in bringing forward new laws if you can't enforce them"

"Whenever I post about this on Twitter, or X, or whatever, people come back saying Bryant do things that matter to your constituents. Well this is one of the issues.. And government is able to do more than one thing at the same time"

"We need to put fans back at the heart of music, or live events, or sports, and that is part of a wider strategy of government to rejig the economy so it works for all of us"

"Things have got worse since 2012.. It was a bit of a cheek from the opposition to pretend they haven't been in government for 14 years"

"What we see in the secondary market is a form of leeching off the creative endeavours and the fan led passion of so many others"

"Let me give you some examples: Olivia Rodrigo, you can get tickets from SubHub for 1st of July next year for £1,506 - face value £200"

"But if you go to Viagogo, for exactly the same event, almost identical tickets, it's £2,573 for a ticket at face value is £50.. That is a 5,146% increase, that is shocking"

"It's not just about music.. It's sports.. England vs South Africa.. £889.. Face value £145"

"This is an endless daily source of frankly racketeering"

"It's based on a fundamental unfairness and that's what we want to put right"

[Make Tickets Fair! @MakeTicketsFair]

ICYMI: Sam Shemtob from @FEAT_org spoke to @IQ_Mag last week about the organisation's fifth AGM, and why the EU's #DigitalServicesAct has been slow to help with fighting illegal ticket resale 🇪🇺

https://t.co/Nuzui3YdF6

[FEAT @FEAT_org]

A pleasure to welcome FEAT members back to Barcelona for our fifth (and most important) AGM yet!

Discussions on the EU's #DigitalServicesAct so far, the role of search engines in directing fans to illegal ticket listings, future legislation and the @MakeTicketsFair campaign 🎟️

[Make Tickets Fair! @MakeTicketsFair]

Despite a crackdown on ticket scalping, it only takes two minutes to find a top-end ticket to see Oasis in Melbourne listed on Viagogo for over AU$ 3,600 (€2,247) 🤔 with plenty more listed higher than 10%!

@Steve_Dimo @VicGovAu @LiveNationAU

https://t.co/RpHdSRGclX

[Bloomberg @business]

Live Nation CEO Michael Rapino said surging sales of Oasis tickets on the secondary market illustrate the need for Congress to step in and regulate the industry https://t.co/wqYhxdND6i

[Make Tickets Fair! @MakeTicketsFair]

Known as 'speculative ticketing', resellers will list tickets they don't yet possess at massively inflated prices - and fans risk paying for tix that don't exist 😓

With little way to get compensation, we recommend buying from the authorised ticketing platform for the concert!

[Eric Alper 🎧 @ThatEricAlper]

Scalpers are already listing hundreds of Oasis tickets for shows in NY, LA, Chicago, Toronto, and Mexico City at prices as high as $3,000—before they’re even on sale. These “ghost” tickets aren’t guaranteed, leaving fans at risk of cancellations and no access to the show.

[IQ Magazine @IQ_Mag]

Police in India are investigating an alleged ticket touting scam relating to @Coldplay’s forthcoming concerts in Mumbai.

https://t.co/tfo9Dx9OV7

[Make Tickets Fair! @MakeTicketsFair]

The @youmeatsix farewell tour has partnered with
@tixelofficial to say farewell to ticket touts!

Resale on Tixel is capped at face value + 10% which allows sellers to cover additional costs like booking fees & admin charges.

Read more @MusicWeek ⤵️
https://t.co/i3Zo4T9pH1

[Make Tickets Fair! @MakeTicketsFair]

Pleased to see that @IronMaiden are capping ticket resale at face value in the UK for their 2025 world tour. What a huge success it would be to see them do the same for the rest of their European dates!

#IronMaiden #RunForYourLivesWorldTour #Eddie #MakeTicketsFair

[Make Tickets Fair! @MakeTicketsFair]

Today's excellent panel at Reeperbahn '24 covered important & relevant ticketing issues, including whether the EU's #DigitalServicesAct is being effectively enforced and if it's now time for a Europe-wide ban on ticket resale for profit! 🇪🇺

[Sky News @SkyNews]

BREAKING: An investigation has been launched by the Competition and Markets Authority into Ticketmaster over the sale of Oasis concert tickets.

More: https://t.co/1IKTWOo9eW

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