{"id":268652,"date":"2025-11-17T23:20:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:20:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/268652\/"},"modified":"2025-11-17T23:20:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-17T23:20:09","slug":"reselling-tickets-above-face-value-set-to-be-banned-by-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/268652\/","title":{"rendered":"Reselling tickets above face value set to be banned by government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Investigations by Trading Standards have previously uncovered evidence of tickets being resold for up to six times their original cost.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Rocio Concha, director of policy and advocacy at Which?, said it was &#8220;great news for music and sports fans&#8221;, adding the plan would &#8220;rein in professional touts and put tickets back in the hands of real fans&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She urged the government to &#8220;show that the price cap is a priority by including the necessary legislation in the King&#8217;s Speech&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ticketmaster&#8217;s parent company Live Nation Entertainment said it already limits resale in the UK to face value prices and described the reported plan as &#8220;another major step forward for fans&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Resale sites like Viagogo and Stubhub have previously claimed that a price cap could push customers towards unregulated sites and social media, putting them at increased risk of fraud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Investigations by Trading Standards have previously uncovered evidence of tickets being resold for up to six times their&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268653,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":{"0":"post-268652","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268652\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}