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| Quote: A number of MPs are calling for ticket-touting at big sporting events to be made illegal. The ban would include Wimbledon, where tickets for tomorrow's men's final were being offered on websites for more than £6,000 a pair. It is only illegal to re-sell tickets for professional football matches. But now an MP wants touting to be banned at all "crown jewel" sporting events, such as Wimbledon, the Grand National and the Six Nations Rugby. Sharon Hodgson, Labour MP for Washington and Sunderland North, has the support of a dozen or so colleagues. "What I want is legislation that makes it a criminal offence to buy up large numbers of tickets, with a view to selling them at a profit," she says. "If that wasn't allowed, people wouldn't do it." | |
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Well the Wimbledon tickets may actually be legal. If you have Wimbledon debentures they pay no interest but include transferrable tickets as a sweetener, and you do not even get all your money back at the end. These are the ONLY wimbledon tickets that can be traded. If you buy tickets in any other way they are not transferable.
But if you sell a small group of tickets that you bought personally and are unable to attend then why cant you sell them. Many events pride themselves on hoe fast that they sell out, then at least they get the proceeds up front. If they are over priced it is the touts who end up out of pocket. That is the market for you.