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Taylor Swift Wembley tickets offered online for more than £9,000

Fans looking on re-sale site Viagogo can buy seats with a restricted view for £9,282 with the cheapest tickets going for £499

Evening Standard

Taylor Swift fans face being ripped off as tour tickets listed on resale website for £4,256

Listings were posted amid unprecedented demand to see the American singer’s record-breaking stadium concert

The Independent UK

Revealed: how touts drew up secret plans to sabotage Labour’s ticket reforms

Exclusive: Footage shows private event, attended by representatives of firms including StubHub and Viagogo, where £73,000 was raised for political lobbying

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‘No one needs their name near this’: the secret plot by touts to undermine Labour’s reforms

Attendees at Coalition for Ticket Fairness dinner stump up thousands for fighting fund – because they know their time might be up

The Guardian - UK

Viagogo apologises after tickets for England football game sold illegally

Reselling football tickets is illegal.

Evening Standard

Viagogo ‘mistakenly’ listed resale of England football match tickets

Website blames human error for the advert, now removed, for about 100 seats when practice is illegal in UK

The Guardian - UK

Ticket touts who ‘fleeced’ Ed Sheeran and Lady Gaga fans jailed

Firm run by the ‘Ticket Queen’ sold tickets worth more than £6.5m on sites including Viagogo and StubHub

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Viagogo boss Cris Miller: Carrying on ticketing, despite the controversy

The resale website boss is cagey about talk of it profiting from dodgy touts, but does seem rattled by Labour’s plan to cap resale prices

The Guardian - UK

‘Greedy and dishonest’ touts sold tickets worth £6.5m, court hears

Ed Sheeran and Little Mix fans among those targeted by firm that resold on Viagogo and StubHub

The Guardian - UK

Banned adverts: Brands that took it too far, after FKA twigs' Calvins ad

Some brands don't quite hit the mark with their adverts, resulting in the content being banned

Evening Standard

Royal Albert Hall 12-seat private box offered for sale … at £3m

For the price, and £13,795 a year towards the venue’s upkeep, the owners will be able to attend events for the next 843 years

The Guardian - UK

Ed Sheeran objects to Royal Albert Hall’s plans to sell more seats to investors

Musician ‘vehemently opposed’ to seat-holders selling unwanted tickets at inflated prices

The Guardian - UK

Viagogo boss defends Taylor Swift and Beyoncé tickets reselling for thousands

Tickets to Taylor Swift's Eras Tour have been spotted for more than $35,000 on resale sites.

Fortune

Ban ticket resellers from making profit in UK, say musicians’ managers

Industry figures want ministers to follow Ireland and France’s lead and stop touts from making huge mark-ups

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Swiftly resolved? The problems in concert ticketing – and how to fix them

After an outright debacle in the US, European fans of Taylor Swift have still found getting tickets to be a nightmare. Industry experts explain how to improve the experience

Evening Standard

Taylor Swift fans furious after UK Eras tour tickets put on secondary ticketing sites for thousands of pounds

Despite assurances that precautions would be taken to prevent tickets from being resold for extortionate amounts elsewhere, this was not the experience for many fans

Liverpool Echo

Ticketmaster warning to Taylor Swift fans trying for tickets

There are strict rules in place over how many tickets you can buy

Liverpool Echo

Taylor Swift fans advised to 'wait for demand to settle' for Eras tour UK 2024 tickets

Taylor Swift Eras tour tickets are being resold online for "eye-catchingly high levels"

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The Independent UK

Taylor Swift fans furious as UK Eras tour tickets put on resale for thousands

‘How is that actually fair?’ asked one fan

The Guardian - UK

Taylor Swift fans angry as Eras tour tickets put on Viagogo for vast sums

Fans of US singer express frustration at presale tickets being advertised on resale sites for thousands of pounds

Wales Online

Taylor Swift tickets already being sold for as much as £6,000 on Stubhub

Some fans are reselling Taylor Swift Eras Tour tickets at "extortionate prices"

Liverpool Echo

Taylor Swift UK 2024 Eras tour tickets being sold for up to £2,500 on Viagogo

Fans are reselling Taylor Swift Eras tour tickets online for “way over face value”

Edinburgh Live

Edinburgh Taylor Swift Murrayfield tickets on resale for nearly double the price

Presale tickets went live for the June 7 show in Edinburgh at 11am for those lucky fans who secured an advance code with tickets being split between two platforms – Ticketmaster and AXS.

Daily Mirror

Taylor Swift tickets hit resale sites within minutes with prices costing as much as £6,500

Fans are left fuming after tickets for The Eras Tour shows are already being resold for wildly inflated prices

The Guardian - UK

Manchester United allowing Viagogo sales while pushing crackdown on touts

Manchester United have come under fire for claiming to be cracking down on ticket touts while allowing seats at Old Trafford to be sold through Viagogo

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