Admittedly, ticket scalping isn’t a huge issue in Australia compared to the UK and America. Real fans of artists tend to know how to get tickets in pre-sales or have their fingers hitting the refresh button on ticket websites from 8:50am on the morning tickets go on sale, and don’t have to worry about paying inflated prices for tickets. Indeed if people want to pay massive prices for corporate entertainment packages to concerts then they’ve probably got too much money for it to be a concern.
Hence, it’s not much of a surprise that the Commonwealth Consumers Affairs Advisory Council (CCAAC) has investigated the issue and advised Treasury that there’s no need to introduce laws to regulate onselling of tickets. The CCAAC’s report Consumers And The Ticket Market: Ticket Onselling In The Australian Market was released late last week and unsurprisingly, states the obvious a fair bit.
Technology makes it much quicker and easier to buy tickets and as such events can sell 60,000 tickets in a matter of minutes. However, on the upside, the internet and social networking sites make it easier to re-sell a ticket if you can’t go to an event, or pick up one later if you missed out.
