Ticket Bastard - something has to be done!

The sad thing is, what they're doing is technically legal.
Just this week the UK government issued a report saying ticket sites must do more to fight touts.
Re-seller, while not really breaking the law, "breach" rules whereby they don't always indicate the original face value of the tickets.
& there are some interesting views on the whole mechanism too. There is a fear that outlawing the practice totally, would simply drive the market underground, where it would become almost like the wild west.
I don't know what the legislation/ regulation is in the US . I suspect it is pretty similar, as ticketbastard is a global company & work to their standard operating practices.
They can & should take steps. But a to them a sale is a sale, so changing their methods is going to be very hard.
I also think there is perhaps more the artists can do. Adele had a ticket model that effectively identified mass buy ups & cancelled about 18000 tickets.
There is an argument there that this is itself against the law. But if artists made sure they had full control over their ticket sales, it would be a huge step to making sure fans didn't get ripped off so much.
As for TM's extortionate "service" charges, they should have a breakdown of what they entail on their website here.

Songkick is what Adele used too.
They had software to identify touts & gougers & simply cancelled 18000 tickets that had been harvested.
It didn't stop them completely, but it was a noble effort & I think more bands should go that route to force the resale organisations out of the market.
I also like Glastonbury's idea of personalising the tickets, but that puts the kybosh on being able to buy tickets for friends, unless they have some sort of system like airline ticket sites where the travellers' names are printed on the tickets

I just saw this in the New York Daily News & thought it might be of interest to anyone recently ripped off by ticketbastard.

Supposedly the Charlotte Cure show is on the list of voucher valid shows? Has anyone used a voucher to get tix to this show?

Ticketbastard incentivizing scalpers & taking a second cut from the resale profits?.
Unpossible!