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ED SHEERAN HAS been praised for recalling 10,000 UK tour tickets that were bought and then resold (or put up for sale) on unauthorised ticketing sites.
The singer has announced that he will resell the tickets on authorised ticketing sites; his team said that only UK tour tickets were affected.
Dublin North West TD Noel Rock praised Sheeran for the recall: “It is a positive step forward that Ed Sheeran has taken this measure to protect his true fans from being extorted of their hard-earned money.”
He urged the Irish government to take action to prevent this from happening, and has called on TDs to support his ‘Prohibition of Above-cost Ticket Touting Bill 2017′, which is co-sponsored by Stephen Donnelly.
Over 300,000 tickets have been sold for the singer’s seven dates in Cork, Galway, Dublin and Belfast.
Irish tickets are being sold with heavily inflated prices on ticket reselling site viagogo.ie for up to €945 per ticket.
Tickets for the seven dates across Ireland were originally sold through Ticketmaster for €81 and €91.
A statement on the singer’s website said that this was a breach of the terms and conditions of the sale:
Ed’s promoters alongside the National Trading Standards Cyber Crime team have identified many multiple purchases which are in contravention of the terms and conditions for the sale of the Ed Sheeran tickets.
The recall only affected UK tour dates, the statement said.
Sheeran and his team also urged people not to buy unauthorised sites. A list of the official ticket vendors are:
- With reporting from Hayley Halpin
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Where would the hacks be if there was no twitter?
I live facing the bridge, lots of helicopters etc al recording it and huge area shit down, blast lasted a second as they where stunt flames, people just being dramatic as usual
Fuking stop with this clickbait shite
Another attention seeking headline
Paul, could you not have realised that it was a movie stunt from the * in the headline? Seriously,I mean it was practically spoon-fed to us….
Oh, ok, the Brazil team were all, killed in a plane crash*
* means it’s not true
“The Foreigner” An action packed film starring Nigel Farage blowing up buses full of Syrian refugees.
Sap!
The victims and the victims families of the 7/7 bombing must be disgusted with this stunt.
Quite a sick stunt to terrorise the men, women, children and oaps of London
and try to accustom them to being under attack by the terrorists that their (bought and paid for) government radicalise and invite in from behind the safety of the bulletproof glass installed in their ivory towers.
Sad
So Sad.
Video games have taken to the streets.
Soon no one will know (or care about) the difference between a real terrorist attack and a fake one.
How desensitised people have become.
This whole thing has been blown out of all proportion!
The outrage bus has exploded.
I am surprised that they had to use the real Lambeth Bridge in this day and age.
Surely this could have been done in a film studio with the assistance of CGI (Computer Generated Imagery).
That bus exploding would certainly have looked like a real terrorist attack to a casual unsuspecting observer.
P.S.
Are the film company going to compensate the disrupted commuters?
Pigs might fly.
God some people just look for a way to be offended!!
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