UK resale sites (with one notable exception) adopt new transparency rules

The CMA is considering suing Viagogo after the controversial site failed to join StubHub, Seatwave and Get Me In! in promising to give more info about its resold tickets

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Three of the UK’s ‘big four’ secondary ticketing sites have formally committed to providing new information – including the identity of ticket sellers and the risk buyers will be…

turned away at the door – about all tickets resold on their platforms, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) announced this morning.

Following a nearly year-long investigation, the CMA said last November it would take consider taking legal action against websites it suspected of breaking UK consumer law, giving the…

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