‘Ticket-Selling’ is when someone purchases tickets for any event with the purpose of selling them on to others for a big return. For example, over the weekend tickets for the men’s final at Wimbledon were reportedly being sold online for £6,000.
It is already unlawful to re-sell tickets for football matches and the London Olympics, but Sharon Hodgson, Labour MP for Washington and Sunderland West, wants to see the ban comprehensive to all ‘crown jewel’ sporting events - including Wimbledon, the Grand National and Six Nations Rugby.
She said: ‘We don’t want to stop people from selling tickets at face value but we do want to stop this situation whereby if you have the money you can simply jump the queue at the last minute by using ‘premium’ ticket vendors without a thought for the person who wanted to buy the ticket months ago before they were all bought up’.
Hodgson intention to set up a new private members bill to ban anyone from selling tickets very much above face value, but unless it wins the support of the government it is unlikely to become a law.
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