Prolific tout allowed to flog 300 tickets on StubHub for Lewis Capaldi's sold out return show

Scottish Sun

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The ticket seller has been punting briefs for some of the biggest events of the past year
TOUT OF ORDER Prolific tout allowed to flog 300 tickets on StubHub for Lewis Capaldi's sold out return show
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A SERIAL ticket tout was allowed to flog hundreds of tickets for Lewis Capaldi's sold out shows.
The Scottish singing sensation, 28, is set to perform a host of comeback arena tour.
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Ticket touts are targeting Lewis Capaldi's comeback shows
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A prolific ticket tout was able to punt tickets on StubHub
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He will be touring around the UK as he makes his sensational return to the music scene.
But shameless ticket touts are out to take advantage of fans desperate to see their favourite stars by trying to sell them tickets at inflated prices.
One prolific tout was able to target the Someone You Loved singer's events on resale sites StubHub, reports The Guardian.
A seller called TG Cyprus Event Services Ltd (TGCES) was flogging 306 tickets for his opening show in Sheffield on September 6 for up to £248 - more than triple the amount punters would pay from event organisers.
The ticket seller has been punting briefs for some of the biggest events of the past year.
They were advertising over 1,500 tickets for the epic Oasis reunion tour and seats at the Wimbledon final for a whopping £41,900-a-pop.
Lisa Webb, a law expert at the consumer group Which?, blasted the reseller and called for ministers to take action against touts.
She told the paper: 'This is yet another example of a broken ticketing industry that desperately needs fixing.
'Which? is calling on ministers to urgently put a stop to the touts and introduce a price cap to ensure that tickets can only be resold on secondary sites at the original price paid.
'Resale platforms must also be forced to verify that the seller owns a ticket before it can be listed on their site.'
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We told how Sir Keir Starmer has pledged to slap a 10 per cent cap on resale prices.
A spokesperson for StubHub said: 'We enforce strict measures to protect consumers.
'Any ticket listings found not to be compliant with our requirements are removed.'
The official ticket retailer for Capaldi's shows, Ticketmaster, also backed action against ticket touts.
A spokesperson said: 'Ticketmaster has capped resale prices at face value since 2018. We fully support the government's plans for an industry-wide cap that would remove the incentive for touts to exploit fans and prevent them from paying inflated prices on unauthorised sites.
'We also urge the government to take further action by cracking down on bots and banning speculative ticket sales.'