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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Holly Williams

Viagogo calls for ticket market overhaul after Raye’s ‘absurd’ anti-bot measures

Raye condemned ticket touts last week (Yui Mok/PA) - (PA Wire)

Secondary ticketing platform Viagogo has branded singer Raye’s move to manually review tickets as “absurd” and said bots will only be stopped if the primary market is opened up to create a “fairer” industry.

The group has blamed primary ticket sellers for the rise in touts using bots to buy up tickets, and called on the Government to review the entire market to help level the playing field.

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