For the first time one person received a fine for secondary ticketing
The authority for the guarantees in communications made an important decision in the fight against Secondary ticketingthe phenomenon of resale at an increased price of concert tickets and other important show events. For the first time, a bagarino received A fine of 675 thousand euros for the resale of ninety events tickets.
AGCOM Foam to a Bagarino
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According to Agcom, man had created a system to buy thousands of tickets and sell them at obviously higher prices compared to those who had purchased them for. The tussle would have purchased At least 15 thousand tickets for 90 events Among concerts, games and shows, then trying to resell them and most of the time they also succeed. It is the first time that The fine authority For secondary ticketing a natural person and not a site or a resale platform. In the sentence issued on 30 July, the authority spoke of undue enrichment and a constant and divided activity to circumvent the controls on online sales.
the investigations
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To help the scalper There would have been a network of people who supported him in Faired Purchase Phase of Tickets depending on the limits allowed by the various sales platforms and by the various events. But the man is considered the director of the whole operation and the fine is therefore addressed only to him specifically, considered the central figure of the system. In the note released by the AGCOM It is explained how “thanks to the support of the Special Unit for RadioDiffusion and The Publishing of the Guardia di Finanza, a sophisticated fraudulent system emerged thanks to which the subjects involved managed to ensure, through constant and fractional purchase operations, the massive pipeline of tickets relating to show events and sportsmen from the primary market with the sole and only purpose of selling them in the secondary market at increased prices”.
Tickets purchased
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The sanctioned subject, originally from Bologna, had created together with a partner, a system with which they resold the tickets purchased of events through Viagogoa platform that had already been sanctioned by Agcom in the past. The investigation, as reported by theHandlestarted from the control of Sales of sale of the Tour Tour of the 2023 of the Coldplay. It would have emerged that the suspect, together with some accomplices, had used 34 accounts to buy 2700 tickets for various events between January 2022 and March 2023. The general Crescenzo Sciaraffa from the Guardia di Finanza He explained how the authorized sellers involved asking for the sales flows, bringing to light this group of people who had purchased a large number of tickets. Concert coupons such as Those of Blanco or Coldplay were also resold to triple the initial priceas the General of the Guardia di Finanza explained.
The Digital or secondary ticketing ticking in Italy has been prohibited since 2016the law provides for penalties between 5 thousand and 180 thousand euros. In recent years, authority has fined some foreign sites that favored this resale at inflated prices. In this case, Agcom wanted to clarify that single users can also be sanctioned for this practice.
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