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Will Simpson

Secondary ticket rip-offs – UK Government to finally act?: Next King’s Speech likely to include ban on profiteering

A hand holding concert tickets.

It looks like the government are actually going to go ahead and ban touts selling secondary tickets for profit under legislation that will be included in the next King’s Speech.

That is what is being reported in a news piece in today’s Guardian, anyway. Ministers apparently considered allowing an upper limit of 30% of the original price in the secondary market, but that idea has been discarded in favour of an outright ban on profiteering.

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