I go to quite a lot of gigs, every time I go without a doubt I get pestered by ticket touts around the venue. It makes my blood boil to know they bought them with no intentions of going, just to make a quick few quid. When the real fans are sat at home and they have missed out on seeing their favourite act, but can't afford the ticket touts asking price.

It should be illegal to buy and sell concert tickets for a profit, just like it is illegal to sell football match tickets under section 166 criminal justice and public order act 1994. How ever, it is illegal to sell items on a street corner without a street trading license. Please make the music ticketing laws the same as football ticketing laws!

The following paragraphs were took from www.findlaw.co.uk

Is it against the law to re-sell concert tickets on the secondary market?

Under UK law, it is not illegal to re-sell tickets for concerts, although a street-trading license is required by law in order to sell items on a street corner. In addition, it is sometimes possible for a concert promoter to bring civil proceedings against someone reselling a ticket, but this does not often happen in practice.

Ticket touting and football

Touts will often try to sell tickets outside football grounds at inflated prices. However, resale of football tickets is illegal under section 166 Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994. This Act stipulates that it is an offence for an unauthorised person to sell a ticket for a designated football match or otherwise dispose of such a ticket to another person.

However, touts began to find ways around this legislation, for example, by selling other types of merchandise at an inflated price with the inclusion of a ‘free’ match ticket. Consequently, this Act has been amended by section 53 of the Violent Crime Reduction Act 2006. This imposes the following restrictions in relation to the resale of football tickets:

• newspapers cannot carry advertising for ticket touts;
• touts are prevented from claiming that a match ticket comes ‘free’ with another product;
• section 166 will apply to people offering tickets with a wider/hospitality package and people who provide tickets to touts.

If someone is convicted of ticket touting at football matches under UK law, they may be liable to a fine of up to £5,000 and have a football banning order imposed upon them.