SEPTEMBER | TRENDING
Are legislation and high-
profile closures signalling the
end for secondary ticketing?
Access rounds up the latest goings-on in the fraught
ticketing market
S
econdary ticketing has been heavily
featured in recent news, after new
UK government legislation was
introduced to clamp down on automated
bots and resale.
Ireland followed suit just a couple of
weeks later, announcing that it planned to
back a bill intended to prevent the same
issues. Veteran concert promoter Harvey
Goldsmith urged the Irish Government to
“be brave” and pass the bill.
In the wake of the new legislation,
TicketMaster announced on 13 August that
it was shutting down its secondary ticketing
sites GET ME IN! and Seatwave. In their
place, it was introducing a fan-to-fan ticket
exchange service to its existing platforms,
for those who were unable to make use of
tickets they had purchased.