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What’s on: How to avoid ticket resale scams and what to do if you fall victim
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16/04/2024
Citizens Advice consumer expert Jane Parsons recommends only using websites that have a red, black and white kitemark provided by the Society of Ticket Agents and Retailers or members of the Association of Secondary Ticket Agents.
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For those looking to buy a second-hand ticket, how can we ensure that those tickets, that
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we're not going to get scammed and that they are going to be genuine?
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I think it's important to look at the website. I would highly encourage doing it online through
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a website with a credit card. I would look at the website and obviously take a look and
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ensure that it's a legitimate company, that it has a guarantee in place, that it's got
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customer service that you can reach out to. There's policies that they provide such as
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money back guarantees and things of that nature. I think also that the moment you start to
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move away from that and connect with an individual person, somebody you don't know, somebody
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that's asking you to wire them money up front, you don't really know if their prices are
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legitimate. One of the things I always like to tell people is if the price is too good
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to be true, it probably is too good to be true. You just need to be careful. Unfortunately,
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there are some events in the United Kingdom, like the Champions League final is a regulated
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event here in the United Kingdom. There's going to be a gigantic black market for that.
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If you think you have been scammed, is there anything you can do at that stage? What would
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be the advice?
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There are different authorities in the local counties and things that you can report this
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to. There's the trading standards and there's the CMA as well that you could go to the Competition
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Market Authority. I think if you can try to be as conscious about how you transact, and
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again, I think a good way ultimately is going to be through a credit card and somebody that
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can actually monitor the transactions and take care of it. I haven't seen a lot of success
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of people getting their money back, unfortunately. It's just sort of the nature of the beast
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is that there's going to be people out there that can take advantage of that sort of passion.
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