Many end up in queues outside hospitals paying ticket touts or doctors to speed things up.
|
|
Laura: I love everyone, the tube driver, the ice cream man, the ticket touts, everyone, all of humanity.
|
|
Ferreti said that some 40 ticket touts were also arrested on the streets outside the Olympic Park in recent days by local police, thanks in part to cooperation from spectators and fans attending the Games.
|
|
Reuters reported in April ticket touts were defying a crackdown launched at the beginning of the year, casting light on the scale of the challenge China faces as it looks to overhaul a creaking, under-funded public health system.
|
|
Healthcare is a flashpoint for many people in China, who have long faced issues from ticket touts illegally trading appointment tickets, snarling queues to see top doctors and rampant corruption that can push up the cost of receiving care.
|
|
FLORENCE, Italy (Reuters) - The city of Florence has fined the head of the Uffizi Gallery for broadcasting publicity without authorisation after he aired a recording warning visitors not to buy entry to one of the world's most famous art museums from ticket touts.
|
|
Ticket touts outside the sold-out Mercedes-Benz Arena in Shanghai did a brisk trade as Chinese fighters recorded five victories and three defeats, welterweight Li Jingliang scoring the biggest win with his knockout of Zak Ottow in the co-main event.
|
|
In recent years some British ticket touts have moved into Internet ticket fraud.Jamie Doward: "How boom in rogue ticket websites fleeces Britons". The Observer, Sunday March 9, 2008. In the sports betting world, a tout is someone who sells picks of winners against the spread and the over/under.
|
|
In the book, he claims to have had sex with six girls in a chalet, during his time as a Pontins Bluecoat and he broke the law by orchestrating ticket touts outside of Grease. Richie also claims to have given free tickets to the touts, who went on to sell them at a large profit for Richie.
|
|
A variation of Internet marketing fraud offers tickets to sought-after events such as concerts, shows, and sports events. The tickets are fake or are never delivered. The proliferation of online ticket agencies and the existence of experienced and dishonest ticket resellers has fueled this kind of fraud. Many such scams are run by British ticket touts, though they may base their operations in other countries.
|
|
If they did not, Seatwave would find replacement tickets, or refund the buyer. On 13 August 2018, Seatwave Parent Company Ticketmaster Ltd announced its intention to close Seatwave in October 2018, and move secondary ticketing services to its main website, in a bid to combat exploitation of the service by ticket touts. On 27 November 2018, Seatwave was closed, no longer accepting new ticket listings or purchases.
|
|
In June 2001, PC Hill was called to Stockwell tube station where she was investigating ticket touts. She found the defendant and searched him under section 1 of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act 1984. When asked if he had any sharp items on him, the defendant answered in the negative. Upon searching him, PC Hill was pricked by hypodermic needles hidden in his pockets.
|
|
Tickets for Waits' summer shows were limited to two per person but, in an effort to beat ticket touts, a valid I.D. (passport or driving license) matching the name on the ticket was required to gain entry. Any concert-goer who did not have a valid I.D. or was found to be in possession of a ticket that had been resold – electronic scanners were employed – was not allowed in and did not get a refund.
|
|
Thankfully, however, the strike was cancelled and Southern Vectis bus services operated as normal. Organisers Solo, were accused of being ticket touts by the Island residents as the organisers auctioned 100 tickets to the highest bidder on eBay. Giddings replied to the statement claiming 'I have the right to do what I like, because its my festival'. He also suggested that if people were against this policy then they should simply not buy tickets in this way.
|
|
Biggs oversaw an increase in membership of 90,000 between 2010 and 2015. Biggs also restructured management, improved service to customers and announced plans for several new projects including redevelopment of the Lindley Library and a new scientific research centre. Over 28,000 schools signed up to her Get Growing campaign. In 2014, frustrated by ticket touts reselling tickets to the Chelsea Flower Show for large profits, Biggs announced the launch of last minute charity tickets for the event with the money going towards horticultural apprenticeships.
|
|
The Isle of Wight Festival 2009 was the eighth revived Isle of Wight Festival to be held at Seaclose Park in Newport on the Isle of Wight. The event took place from 12 to 14 June. Headline acts were confirmed for Friday, Saturday and Sunday nights as The Prodigy, Stereophonics, Simple Minds and Neil Young respectively. On 8 June 2009 it was reported that tickets for the festival had sold out, however in an attempt to combat ticket touts, a limited number were held on the door.
|
|
A class action lawsuit has been filed against the company in Israel. The company is the only ticket resale site to have refused to work with Arctic Monkeys and Ed Sheeran to prevent ticket touts reselling tickets for their tours. In May 2018, the UK's Minister for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, Margot James, told BBC Radio 5 Live listeners planning to buy from secondary ticket sites, "don't choose Viagogo - they are the worst". She gave this advice after the Advertising Standards Authority asked National Trading Standards to investigate Viagogo's alleged breaches of UK advertising rules about making any additional fees clear.
|
|
Birmingham distributed their share by ballot among those supporters who had followed the team in the earlier rounds of the competition; 22,000 had attended the semi-final, so many thousands were left disappointed. Of the remaining tickets, 4,640 were allocated to the FA, 40,640 to County Associations, 20,090 to Football League clubs, 2,550 to FA members and 2,080 to the FA Council and stadium authorities.Maddox, Saffer & Robinson, Manchester City Cup Kings 1956, p. 48. An enquiry into the black market held following the previous year's Cup Final meant ticket touts kept a lower profile than usual.
|
|
Seat prices for the final exceeded £70, with some ticket touts charging as much as £600 outside the stadium. For their pre-match walkabout, the Arsenal players wore Hugo Boss suits, whereas the Chelsea players were suited in Armani. Chelsea were allocated the south dressing room after a coin-toss; it was considered a "jinx" given the last nine football teams to use it had failed to win. The teams emerged from the tunnel once the traditional pre-match anthem "Abide with Me" was performed and Chelsea were led by midfielder Roberto Di Matteo, who retired earlier in the season through injury.
|
|
After nearly four years away from politics and in the private sector, Edelen declared his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for governor of Kentucky on January 7, 2019, making him the fourth and final Democrat to enter the race. Edelen chose Gill Holland, a Louisville community builder, filmmaker, and environmentalist, as his lieutenant governor candidate. The ticket touts a platform of no PAC contributions, a living wage, acknowledgement of climate change, green jobs, fully funded public and higher education, universal broadband internet, expanded healthcare and protection of the Medicaid expansion. Edelen also pledged to appoint women to at least six of Kentucky's 12 cabinet positions.
|
|
The Juventus end was O, N, and M and the Liverpool end was X, Y, and Z as deemed by the Belgian court after the disaster. However, the tickets for the Z section were reserved for neutral Belgian fans in addition to the rest of the stadium. This meant the Juventus fans had more sections than the Liverpool fans with the Z section nominally reserved for neutrals. The idea of the large neutral area was opposed by both Liverpool and Juventus, as it would provide an opportunity for fans of both clubs to obtain tickets from agencies or from ticket touts outside the ground and thus create a dangerous mix of fans.
|
|
The FAI has been involved in a number of scandals and controversies during its existence, the most famous being the "Merriongate" controversy, which broke in 1996 when the media reported that in the 1990 and 1994 World Cups, the FAI had sought to acquire extra tickets for Ireland's matches by exchanging tickets it had been allocated for other games; sometimes with the relevant FAs, but sometimes with ticket touts. The FAI was left with many unsold tickets and heavy losses from these transactions. ("Merriongate" refers to the FAI's then- headquarters in Merrion Square, Dublin). The 2007 season saw the FAI start a five-year term of running the League of Ireland after merging with the League.
|
|
Stuart Galbraith through the companies he controls take a fierce anti secondary ticketing stance. Having been a supporter of the Fanfair Alliance in the UK an organisation lobbying for legal controls over the secondary market.Fanfair alliance "DECLARATION AGAINST ONLINE TICKET TOUTS", Fanfair Alliance Viagogo a Swiss secondary ticketing platform filed a lawsuit against Mr Galbraith and Kilimanjaro Live in Germany over the anti touting rules placed on Ed Sheeran tickets on his 2018 tour.BBC News "Viagogo sues Ed Sheeran's promoter in fraud claim", BBC News, 4 September 2018 Stuart Galbraith has appeared on the parliamentary Commons Select Committee providing evidence on a Ticket abuse enquiry accused a number of prominent sites of reselling concert tickets in breach of the Consumer Rights Act.
|
|
Ticket re- sellers use several different means to secure premium and previously sold-out ticket inventories (potentially in large quantities) for events such as concerts or sporting events. Established re-sellers may operate within networks of ticket contacts, including season ticket holders, individual ticket re-sellers, and ticket brokers. They make a business out of getting customers hard-to-find and previously sold-out tickets that are no longer available through the official box office. A ticket scalper at work Ticket scalpers (or ticket touts in British English) work outside events, often showing up with unsold tickets from brokers' offices on a consignment basis or showing up without tickets and buying extra tickets from fans at or below face value on a speculative basis hoping to resell them at a profit.
|
|
In the lead-up to the final, FA chief executive Adam Crozier acknowledged concerns over transport and the quality of the pitch, saying, "We've done a lot of work with Cardiff and hopefully it will be a great occasion, but we'll take a view about how it's worked after the final and decide whether to still hold the match there." A new pitch was re-laid in May, and the police made attempts to ease traffic on the M4 by opening three more turn-offs than they did for the League Cup final. The finalists received a total allocation of approximately 52,000 tickets, which was an estimated increase of 10% on previous Wembley finals. Seat prices for the final exceeded £70, though some ticket touts charged as much as £1,000.
|
|