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IRELAND’S CONSUMER WATCHDOG has launched a full investigation into suspected anti-competitive conduct in the ticketing industry.
The Competition and Consumer Protection Commission (CCPC) said the investigation will look into suspected breaches of competition law in relation to the provision of tickets and the management of ticketing services for live events.
The investigation will primarily focus on possible anti-competitive conduct by operators that include any firms involved in providing tickets and ticketing services, as well as promoters and venues.
The CCPC would not confirm which organisations will be subject to investigation.
However, Fora understands that the probe will involve a thorough examination of Ireland’s main service providers and main promoters in the industry.
As part of the investigation, the CCPC has issued summonses for witnesses and put out formal requirements for information to several parties that are involved in the sector.
The competition and consumer watchdog is also looking for parties in the area of ticket services that may have access to information that is relevant to the investigation.
The CCPC was set up in 2002 to run the rule over merger and acquisition deals and judge if any such deals could harm the competitiveness of a sector.
Written by Killian Woods and posted on Fora.ie
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It’ll be good to see them coming down hard on Seatwave. (Yes, Im laughing typing this)
insurance ombusdsman – toothless – voluntarily signed up to by insurance companies
Press ombudsman – toothless – voluntarily sign up to
Comreg telecommunications ombudsman – toothless – voluntary too
No point in having voluntary systems in place.
Stop wasting tax payers money and just outlaw above value ticket reselling.Job done .
Ireland Inc is rotten to the core with corruption. Quangos and quango eile won’t be making any difference, same shit just different day.
Same with all the big travel operators who sell, match tickets and hotels for premiership games for €300+ when the real cost is nowhere near that
@Mr Snuffleupagus:
Woe betide the career of any man or woman who interferes with government revenue stream.
The travel agents sometime buy off ticket touts
SIPO, HIQA, Health Research Board, PIAB etc etc etc. Stacked with political appointees, toothless and as useful as a dose of glandular fever in the middle of the sahara. Pointless waste of state resources and money. Ask your staff if it’s happening then outlaw it. Then shift your attention to real consumer problems like cost of medicine, hospital care and drugs or is this too much of a political minefield for government agents?
I hope they ask Ticketmaster why they charge a €5 credit card transaction on each ticket rather than on the transaction.
Launch an investigation? Prob launch an inquiry into the results of the investigation too. Just make it illegal to re sell concert tickets at a higher price. Youll never stop touts entirely but youll at least stop ticketmaster and seatwave profiting from it.
Competition authority is a toothless quango
It’s funny that they have this kind of authority for when ticket prices get out of control. Where’s the action on housing? The lads in the Dail want to go see U2 for a few pints!
I think a rent freeze, increase cap and mandatory tenancy board so far but I’m sure they’ll find more ways to narrow the rental market.
Should go the full Brazilian and outlaw touting and arrest those engaged in it
50 Euro to join IRFU . In an attempt to ge a ticket to the Six nations . Got everything ready i.e. Codes etc.
When the time came all tickets gone in less than one second??
What a swiz, they were never offered for sale so where did they go.
About time too….
Cheerio Seatwave
is pat hickey heading it up?
I cannot understand how ticketmaster get away with anything especially from the monopolies board. Every single ticket for everything now goes through ticketmaster and whats worse is that they ate allowed impose a credit charge per ticket not per transaction. How can ticketmaster sell out tickets in a couple of minutes and yet almost simultaneously seatwave have any amount of tickets for sale at hugely inflated prices. What about the rule on maximum amount of tickets sold per transaction, clearly that doesn’t apply to seatwave. Arevwe really expected to believe its coincidence.
Suspected?!
Simple answer to all of this people shouldn’t bother buying their tickets unless there at face value. The scalpels would go out of business in no time.
How soon before ticket master do the obvious thing and setup a “reselling” service where people give back their tickets and they charge another €5 credit card charge.
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