Our partners over at FanFair Alliance have today urged the government to crackdown on commercial ticket touting and “Rip Off’ resale sites such as Viagogo and Stubhub. Relaunching around a simple three-point plan, FanFair aim to end large-scale online ticket touting in the UK. Having supported them since their inception in 2016, it was fantastic to be apart of the government discussion.

Bringing together a wide cross-section of the UK’s music community, FanFair takes a stand against profiteering in the secondary ticketing market and supports pro-consumer legislation, technologies and business practices.

As an antidote to exploitation, they advocate “capped” resale – where music fans are provided with services to safely resell a ticket for the price they paid or less.

We thought we’d run you through their 3 point plan.

Legislative action:

New laws making it illegal to resell a ticket for profit, bringing the UK into line with other progressive music markets.

Tech action:

Platforms like Google and YouTube must stop promoting touts, and help direct consumers towards legitimate sources of tickets

Industry action:

Across the board, the live music business needs to make capped consumer-friendly ticket resale visible and viable

You can read more about this here.