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Stub Hub launches desperate attempt for public backing
Written on Thu 04 Feb 2016
As the political pressure to ban ticket touts increases, the team at StubHub have come up with the brilliant idea of running a petition to show the world just how much they and their ticket-touts are loved. In a tone slightly reminiscent of the ‘Give smokers a choice’ propaganda put forward by tobacco companies, and using the same mindless rhetoric about the government ‘restricting your rights’, their campaign calls for a ‘clear legal right’ for fans to be able to resell spare tickets without ‘restrictive terms’ being imposed.
So before anyone rushes to sign this, lets remember the basic facts. Tickets are not a freely-transferrable commodity, they are a contract (between the promoter and buyer), and therefore the promoters can apply whatever terms and conditions that they see fit. So many promoters might not want StubHub and their chums to profiteer, at the expense of genuine music lovers, and promoters might also want to ensure that the tickets that they sell for their events go to the buyers that they want to sell to, rather than to the highest bidder.
We think the existence of this petition is evidence that the secondary market is getting rattled. They know that their time is up. They know that more and more artists, venues and fans are getting sick of touts. This is a market which needs more regulation, not more greed.
We’ll give you the link, on the strict understanding that you won’t sign it, because we know you’ll love the comments.
https://www.change.org/p/professor-michael-waterson-support-our-right-to-resell-tickets?mi_u=1383068
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Some of the supporters of that petition have clearly missed the point. They haven’t realised yet that it’s not about them as individual fans selling their ticket.
It’s about trying to clamp down on touts/resale sites getting people on the inside to buy up blocks of tickets, only to sell them at two or three times the price an hour later, rather than selling the odd few tickets in the event they can’t make it for whatever unfortunate reason.
Thank. This is a market which needs more regulation, not more greed.
color blind test
This is done rather than people selling the odd few tickets in the event that they can’t make it for whatever unfortunate cause.
drift boss
Completely agree with this comment, why should people make money out of tickets from genuine music lovers who fail to get tickets due to touts etc buying them all up.