We are regular visitors to Porthleven and this car park is a real community asset. If it is privatised and the costs go up for visitors it will kill off trade for this vibrant community. Please do not allow the car park to be privatised and made extortionately expensive or it will become an empty space and your community will suffer. People will try and find on-street parking and that will aggravate the locals and be unsafe.
Ticketmaster is a monopoly! It’s been over 30 years and no one has ever stopped their control of the market. Concert prices have become so unaffordable, I can no longer attend shows. Why am I paying hundreds of of dollars more for the same act I saw a few years ago for hundreds of dollars less!? Dynamic pricing also needs to end. It is an unfair system that ultimately hurts the consumer.
A legal regulatory requirement needs to set to establish a LIMIT on the markup of Resale tickets AND a limit on ALL FEES, AND ALL FEES need to be DISPLAYED on the screen before the consumer clicks to purchase, not while processing the purchase (which is timed). Full transparency and disclosure must be required before going through payment process / transaction.
The resale tickets I purchased on StubHub on 11/2024:
$1,435.60 Ticket Price
Tax $0.00
Total fees* $505.21 (this was not disclosed until just before agreeing to charge credit card in the payment process/transaction)
Vat $0.00
Discount - $0.00
Order Total $1,940.81
Resale tickets for the previous concert I purchased on StubHub on 07/2024
$57.81 Ticket Price
Tax $0.00
Total fees* $29.55 (this was not disclosed until just before agreeing to charge credit card in the payment process/transaction)
Vat $0.00
Discount - $0.00
Order Total $87.36
I thought fees of $29.55 for a $57.81 ticket were high. That’s over 50% of the ticket (51.1%). Then for next concert, fees were $505.21! There needs to be a limit on markup and fees to protect consumers.
Danielle
I signed the petition because I believe that trained, experienced non-medics play a valuable role in the aesthetics industry. Many have invested significant time and resources into gaining qualifications, delivering safe and effective treatments, and building trusted relationships with their clients. While safety is paramount, I think there should be fair regulation that recognizes skills and competency—not just medical titles. Banning non-medics outright could unfairly affect many professionals and limit access to quality services for clients who trust them.
I have worked within the aesthetics industry for over 5 years now,
I have a clinic in Bolton where I work safely adhering to a high clinical standard and off course safe practice and mental health screening with every client.
I’ve trained many times over the years and do my treatments multiple times daily, I would class myself as an expert and at the age of 44 to have some of the treatments I do daily taken away could very possibly leave me
In a lot of debt having a 5 year lease on my premises, and relying on my job to pay the bills and keep a roof over mine and my children’s heads, it seems impossible to think of doing anything else…. I really hope we are able to get a fair outcome for our clients and for us the non medics who have committed years of training and many thousands of pounds building a career in an industry we love and want to continue working in safely without fear of practically being jobless and in debt in the near future.
My personal suggestion is we have one course for medics and non medics that bring us all
to the same high standards.
Kind Regards
Miss Jacqueline Stewart
I have dedicated my entire 20+ year career to facial enhancement and latterly clinical aesthetics within the last 5 years. I have taken time to study in depth the complexities of beauty, aesthetics and associated anatomy; I chose to be trained by a Dr and I care deeply about the treatments I provide to my clients. I consider myself a trustworthy and premium aesthetic professional and understand the nuances of working ethically, with client care and safety and also with artistic precision. Being a medic does not solely guarantee these skills and it is vital anything regulatory does not adopt such a simplistic and ill-educated approach that has the potential to wipe out people’s entire careers.