Tickets advertise the work of workers to buy for concerts

Ticket advertisements are working on workers’ teams to buy tickets for the largest concerts in the UK, such as Oasis and Taylor Swift so they can be reworked for profit, the BBC investigation.

We have found that some advertisements make “millions” of people abroad known as “tickets”. Last year Swift’s Eras Tour.

Our reporter, speaking as the future, secretly recorded the boss of the ticket -pulling campaign in Pakistan, who said she could create a team for us and may buy hundreds of tickets.

UK government’s plans New legislation that needs to be cracked But critics claim that this is not far enough.

Shortly after the previous sale where the limited number of fans can buy Tickets on Oasis when they went on sale in AugustTickets for their concerts in the UK were made for resale, such as StubHub and Viagogo More than 6000 pounds sterling – About 40 times the nominal cost of the permanent ticket.

We found that real fans missed, or, desperately, ultimately paid the way for the chances, because in advertising conditions there is an army of people who work for them to buy tickets for the most sought after events as soon as they go on sale.

Ali, the head of the ticket pulling campaign, boasted our secret reporters that he succeeded in providing tickets for popular concerts.

“I think we had 300 tickets on ColdPlay, and then we had an oasis on the same week – we did great,” he told us.

Ali claimed that he knew that in the UK, who earned more than £ 500,000 last year, and believed that others are “doing millions”.

Our studies have shown that tickets are buying tickets using illegal automated software and multiple identities that may mean fraud.

Another boss, which pulls the ticket based in India, told the BBC Wales, investigates the “secret reporter”: “If I sit in your country and manage my activities in your country, then it is completely illegal.

“We do not participate in illegal things because we are actually outside the UK.”

A person who worked in tickets for almost 40 years showed us how he penetrated into the secret Internet group, which claims to provide thousands of tickets using Underhand methods.

Reg Walker said the group members can create 100,000 “Passages” – effectively allowing them to bypass the software that creates an online chore for concerts.

He said that the BBC’s the Great Bilet tends the program that it is an equivalent “100,000 people suddenly undergoing and pushing in front of you.”

He added: “If you are a ticket campaign and an authorized resale company, and someone decides to list hundreds of tickets for the event with high demand … My question would be, where did you get tickets? There’s no proper check.”

Usually fans are limited to several tickets when buying on major platforms such as Ticketmaster.

Touts often list your tickets on the sophisticated sites, and one former Viagogo employee allegedly saw some profiles with thousands of tickets for sale.

“They (advertising) buy most of the time in the hope of resale and profit,” he said, speaking provided anonymity.

“I don’t know how they get on them, but I know that at some point they would buy tickets in serious quantities.

“You don’t allow many people to access because you keep your tickets.”

Viagogo said he refutes this person’s claims, insisting that 73% of sellers on their site sold less than five tickets in each – and other sellers included sports clubs and promoters.

This is not just music concerts aimed at Touts because the BBC has revealed that thousands of football tickets are advertised illegally.

Since 1994, the UK has been a criminal offense to resell tickets for football matches in the UK, if the maximum punishment is a fine of 1000 pounds.

But we found that 8,000 tickets are advertised illegally on the Internet for more than a denomination for the Prime Minister Arsenal from Chelsea at the Emirates Stadium on March 16.

One of these sellers was a semi -professional footballer based in the UK.

Last year, the Bogdan Stolbouskin openly advertised tickets for football games totaling over 60,000 pounds in social media.

He sold our reporter a single ticket for a double denomination.

Mr. Stolbushkin did not respond to many attempts to contact him about these accusations.

Another potentially illegal practice in the UK is a “speculative sale” where Touts list resale tickets without possessing them.

No guarantee that these advertising advertising actually fixed the ticket, and “speculative sale” was one of the reasons for two advertising were put in jail for fraud In 2020.

Our investigation revealed at least 104 “Speculated” places, listed at Viagogo for the catfish and the August concert at the Cardiff stadium.

The exact places appear to be sold simultaneously on both Ticketmaster, the original selling point and Viagogo.

After we presented our evidence of Viagogo, it said: “The lists suspected of violation of our policy were removed from the site.”

The UK government is considering an attempt to resolve the issue, but the evidence of the problems faced can be seen in Republic of Ireland.

In 2021, the laws were introduced there to stop the ticket resale above the nominal value, but the BBC found that it was rebuilt.

These included tickets to see how the Knecap band is sold four times on their denomination of 59 euros (50 pounds of sterling), and tickets for Six Nations Ireland V France Rugby Clash in Dublin were sold for £ 3,000.

One of the largest promoters of Ireland, Peter Eiken, said he had never heard that the company had sold tickets and questioning whether there were tickets at all.

Many companies sold in Ireland are abroad, which the BBC said they help them avoid punishment under Irish legislation.

Joint Prices for Ticket resale and Regulation of resale platforms He was one of the Manifesto of Sir Keira Starr on the eve of the general election last year.

Now it is the prime minister, the UK government has conducted a consultation With offers, including a cost that varies from the initial price up to 30% above the value, the introduction of large fines and a new licensing mode.

But Damn Caroline Dinance, Chairman of the Inter -Party Culture, Media and Sports Committee of the UK, said: “This is a minefield for people who just want to buy tickets for the event they want to enjoy.

“This data proves that there is not enough activity from the government, in some cases from the police, and, of course, from some of these truly large internet organizations so that they can squeeze such activities.”

The conservative deputy said the investigation emphasized that “many consumers already see that in some cases there is a whole world, in some cases illegally, but all cases that occur in the sphere of tickets.”

“People have to pay for the chances because others quite often work outside the UK to do an absolute murder when buying tickets, selling them with a huge prize, and in some cases they sell tickets that do not exist at all,” she added.

The purpose of the UK government is to “strengthen consumer protection and stop the fans,” the UK culture secretary reports.

Lisa Nandy added that he wanted “to provide the money spent on the tickets that enter our incredible live events, not in the pocket of greedy advertising.”