Tuesday 5 July 2011

Ticketola founder says its a buyer's market

After the recent shenanigans at AEG’s Alicia Keys concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall where fans who brought tickets from secondary ticket agents were (sometimes) refused entry as they were not original purchasers, The founder of a new secondary ticketing website has hit out at two of the most common criticisms of the growing ticket resale sector, saying that that fans are not ripped off by secondary ticket agencies, saying that 96% of tickets sold at face or below face value, and that ticket fraud is almost non-existent on the leading ticket exchanges because buyers are protected against fraud. Jonathan White, who launched ticketola.com in May, told EU Ticket News that that the secondary ticketing sector is a "buyer's market" and most people buying tickets from these outlets are getting “bargains”. According to Ticket News, efforts by AEG to only allow original ticket buyers into the recent Alicia Keys show led to queues and confusion at a show hadn't actually sold out.

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