|
|
| New olympic website fraud risk |
|
The Vancouver Olympic Organising Committee (VANOC) opened its online ticket re-sale facility last week enabling ticket holders to log on to their accounts on the website and sell their tickets to other account holders. But the original tickets will only have their barcodes deactivated and not physically revoked so they can be resold to unsuspecting buyers. With estimates that up to 10 percent of tickets will change hands before the Games, that could mean as many as 160,000 invalid tickets will be available on the secondary market. And with the Games now just a few weeks away, Scalpers have legally jacked up the cost of tickets to as much as 20 times the ticket's face value. Related Articles: TicketNetwork.com Brings Out Enhanced Website TicketNetwork.com, a leading source for event ticket inventory in the USA, announced today that it will launch
the first of a number of upgrades centred on increasing the value of the
entertainment shopping experience for ticket buying and selling consumers.
The Ticket Factory Offers New Website Using AudienceView’s CMS AudienceView announced the United
Kingdom’s most dynamic ticketing agent, The Ticket Factory, has gone
live with a brand new website and the latest version of AudienceView
Ticketing.
One Man Monopoly, Sead Dizdarevic, Set to Make Fortune from Winter Olympic Tickets in USA Sead Dizdarevic is the official ticket scalper for the 2010 Winter Olympics for the US secondary ticketing market. And he's spent tens of millions to ensure his monopoly. At least that what the Seattle Times is saying in a recent article about the upcoming winter olympics to be held next door in... Vancouver Olympic Tickets selling for 20 Times Face Value on Olympic Fan to Fan Site
Proving the secondary ticket market has become big business with sports events
keen to take their cut from fans and brokers selling their seats to the highest
bidder, the Vancouver Olympics new 'fan to fan' marketplace has see high profits for both fans and VANOC themselves with Category A... Ticket Fraud Sites Uncovered - Scam and Ticketing Swindle Revealed by Richard Kastelein
OP/ED - In light of today being the launch of Scamnesty in the UK (Office of Fair Trading (OFT) in the UK has designated February 2010 Scams Awareness Month) EU Ticket News has looked to the members of Safeconcerts.com in the UK, who have been adamantly hunting down scam... Several brokers out Vancouver Olympic tickets as company allegedly falls 'victim to fraud' by Alfred Branch Jr.
An Atlanta-based ticket broker, who allegedly bought about $2 million
worth of Vancouver Olympic tickets from an unnamed source on behalf of
several large-volume resellers, apparently lost all the money, never
received the tickets and is now believed to have been a...
|
Ticket holders will still keep their original tickets after they sell them on 