Scalping

NSW Fair Trading claims it has already received 36 complaints against the controversial ticket resale platform in 2021.

Anti-touting group FEAT (Face-value European Alliance for Ticketing) has published a guide for agents and promoters to stop scalping.

“Viagogo customers should feel confident that they will gain entry to the event, and that is why we back every ticket with the Viagogo guarantee.”

Live Nation's ticketing giant Ticketmaster is investing in blockchain technology.

Ticketmaster U.S. president Jared Smith has now formally replied to two politicians, reiterating that the company is not colluding with scalpers.

Ticketmaster is hit with a U.S. class action over its alleged ticket scalping scheme

“We have always done what we can to keep our tickets from scalpers and this declaration offers the best protection yet for Meredith-goers."

New legislation in the UK makes it a crime to use automated software bots to scoop up concert and sporting tickets.

AXS Marketplace allows fans to resell unwanted tickets, but only at face value with a maximum 10% admin fee. It also simplifies the process of transferring names.

Here's four prevention measures to fight fraud in the live sector.