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[Lucky Rathen]

In an effort to discourage touts, (aka the scum of the universe), I think you should only allow tickets to be to sold at face value in the Trading Post. The more opportunity touts have to sell their tickets at inflated prices, the more people will do it. It would be nice to see a website, especially a music website, putting a fair ticket price policy in place.

See x4 Jimmy Carr Tickets for example.

It shouldn't be that hard to police, as it's easy to find out how much tickets cost for things. Perhaps it could be one of the forums where a post has to be approved by a moderator before it appears.

Anyone second my proposal?

Originally Posted by Lucky Rathen

In an effort to discourage touts, (aka the scum of the universe), I think you should only allow tickets to be to sold at face value in the Trading Post. The more opportunity touts have to sell their tickets at inflated prices, the more people will do it. It would be nice to see a website, especially a music website, putting a fair ticket price policy in place.

See x4 Jimmy Carr Tickets for example.

It shouldn't be that hard to police, as it's easy to find out how much tickets cost for things. Perhaps it could be one of the forums where a post has to be approved by a moderator before it appears.

Anyone second my proposal?

Seconded.

[Bigsby]

Agreed, although I think you should be allowed to include the often astronomical booking fees.

Originally Posted by Bigsby

Agreed, although I think you should be allowed to include the often astronomical booking fees.

Yeah, what was paid for them (unless this was from a tout selling them at double the price of course). I agree.

[Neil]

I'm happy enough with the touts just being named and shamed as they are just now to be honest. Although if people would like an explicit rule about this set in place then I don't mind doing this, even though I don't think there is really that many touts on here.

I'm not keen to set yet another forum's posts to be all manually moderated as there is already enough posts getting moderated on as it stands (it's bad enough people usually have to wait up to a day for their gig posts to appear for example). And I really don't have the spare time to go off and check ticket prices every time someone posts tickets for sale.

[Lucky Rathen]

Maybe you could just write it in the the posting guidelines for the Trading Post, and if someone breaks the rule you can delete their advert. Then it doesn't need manually moderated, but at least the rule is there.

Originally Posted by Lucky Rathen

Maybe you could just write it in the the posting guidelines for the Trading Post, and if someone breaks the rule you can delete their advert. Then it doesn't need manually moderated, but at least the rule is there.

Or, as a rule, you have to post your address before posting tickets for sale.

That way, any touts can have their windows smashed/houses petrol bombed accordingly....

[Indie King]

gggrrr. ticket touts are cunts.

[geo1903]

I feel very strongly against ticket touting, just sad that Ticketmaster and Play openly encourage it nowadays.

Nothing worse than seeing local gig tickets on eBay at rip off prices with sellers addresses like Cardiff and Liverpool.

Cunts.

[Lucky Rathen]

If Ebay gave a fuck they would just stop people selling tickets altogether. They've almost single handedly taken touting out of the underground and turned it into something people are actually making a living from.

What is annoying is when you see tickets on there the day they went on sale for £££s more than they were bought for 10 minutes previous. Obviously people bought a load of tickets just purely with the intention of selling them.