{"id":578835,"date":"2025-11-18T18:58:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:58:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/578835\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T18:58:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T18:58:27","slug":"ticket-resale-for-profit-to-be-outlawed-in-united-kingdom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/578835\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticket Resale for Profit to Be Outlawed in United Kingdom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reselling tickets for more than face value will be made illegal in the United Kingdom, <a data-offer-url=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2025\/nov\/17\/reselling-tickets-for-profit-to-be-outlawed-in-uk-government-crackdown\" class=\"external-link\" data-event-click=\"{&quot;element&quot;:&quot;ExternalLink&quot;,&quot;outgoingURL&quot;:&quot;https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2025\/nov\/17\/reselling-tickets-for-profit-to-be-outlawed-in-uk-government-crackdown&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/money\/2025\/nov\/17\/reselling-tickets-for-profit-to-be-outlawed-in-uk-government-crackdown\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Guardian<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c77z2l3yzl8o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BBC News<\/a> report. Set to be announced this week, the plans will make good on the Labour Party\u2019s 2024 election pledge to crack down on touting, amid the debate over rising concert ticket fees. Platforms reselling face-value tickets will be allowed to add service fees, but these will be subject to new limits, according to The Guardian. Changes to resale laws will not affect the dynamic pricing model employed by Ticketmaster and other vendors, whereby a ticket\u2019s face value drastically fluctuates depending on demand.<\/p>\n<p>An alliance of artists and consumer bodies\u2014including Radiohead, Robert Smith, PJ Harvey, Dua Lipa, and sports fans\u2019\u00a0organizations\u2014issued a statement this week calling on the United Kingdom\u2019s prime minister, Kier Starmer, to honor the pledge. The statement called for new protections to \u201chelp fix elements of the extortionate and pernicious secondary ticketing market that serve the interests of touts, whose exploitative practices are preventing genuine fans from accessing the music, theatre and sports they love.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Representatives for resale platforms StubHub and Viagogo\u2014which will be legally liable if users violate the law\u2014told The Guardian that price caps risk increasing fraud by driving buyers and sellers to unregulated sites. It is unclear whether such British-based resale sites, whose profits rely on taking a percentage of the exorbitant markups charged by touts, will survive the change in legislation.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gzmcOU BaseText-eqOrNE BaseLink-eTpkqh ContentCardEmbedImageLink-eELFBx deqABF jfBpVC fyUolD XqBtt content-card-embed__image\" data-testid=\"ContentCardEmbedImage\" href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/thepitch\/ticket-resellers-boss-interview\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"article image\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-eNxvmU cfBbTk responsive-image__image\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/UnionSideBar.png\"\/><\/a><a class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gzmcOU BaseText-eqOrNE BaseLink-eTpkqh ContentCardEmbedHedLink-kqBDz deqABF kxtjOE gJzqjx hEvJqU content-card-embed__hed-link\" href=\"https:\/\/pitchfork.com\/thepitch\/ticket-resellers-boss-interview\/\" data-testid=\"ContentCardEmbedHedLink\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cScalping\u2014I Hate That Word\u201d A Frank Conversation With a Major Player in the Secondary Ticket Market<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Reselling tickets for more than face value will be made illegal in the United Kingdom, The Guardian and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":578836,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[77,44107,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-578835","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-industry-news","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115572240205753856","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578835","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=578835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/578835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/578836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=578835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=578835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=578835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}