Get out your party hats and dance gaily around the Maypole everyone because BBC News tells me the fight against the ticketing rip-off merchants is won!
At a conference earlier this year, police and major UK festival organisers came together to boil up a solution to such scams earlier this year. With one prong of attack the Metropolitan Police's Central E-crime Unit closes down the offenders, 11 sites since last September, and with the other
Viagogo and Seatwave allows the trade to continue at vastly inflated prices allowing the festival owners and ticket merchants getting a second cut of the profit.
Compare this arrangement to the Fort Knox style one that will occur should I win an Arctic Monkeys @ Brixton Academy ticket in their fan ballot and it's pretty clear this mess has just been swept under the carpet for the meanwhile:
- Tickets are limited to 2 per person.
- The show is strictly 16+ and will require all entrants to bring a form of photographic I.D.(Passport, Driving License, National Identity Card).
- If you do not have a valid form of photo I.D. you will be refused entry to the venue.
- Each successful applicant must when entering the venue on the night have a valid form of photo I.D. which correlates to the name on the ticket.
- Each successful applicant must enter the venue with the person holding their second ticket. If the person with the second ticket is not with the successful applicant then the 2nd ticket will be invalidated.
- The reselling of these tickets is strictly prohibited and tickets will be invalidated.
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