For the last few years there’s been a healthy market for music event tickets on online auction sites such as eBay.
People are now so confident of at least making their money back, if not a healthy profit, that they will buy tickets for gigs they have no interest in going to, purely to sell online.
The problem is if this was done on the street, outside of the gig itself, the sellers would be classed as ticket touts and arrested on the spot. Now a group of British MPs are calling for an end to the unfair practise, and an …read more

A man from Glasgow in Scotland, has snapped up a pair of tickets for the Led Zeppelin comeback concert next month for £83,000 in a BBC organised charity auction.
Radio 4 host Terry Wogan held the auction in aid of Children in Need, the BBC money raising initiative for kids around the world. Over the four days it was active, the auction raised £894,000, with the Led Zeppelin tickets contributing almost 10% to the total.
Kenneth Donell was the lucky man who bid the most for the tickets. I say lucky, not only because he’ll be the envy of millions by actually …read more