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	Tickets: Kylie Declares war on Ebay and Ticket Touts [ ] 283 Reads
	The Sun Newspaper report that Kylie has ordered Ebay to take down all auctions of her sold our concerts, to allow tickets to be resold at face value. Leading ticket agent See Tickets have traced the tickets on sale on ebay and written to holders of the tickets to tell them that the tickets will not be issued as they are attempting to resale them. Kylie's stand is a broadshot at Ebay who seem to have just let this "ticket touting" go on allowing punters to splash out up to 10x the face value of tickets. POP princess Kylie Minogue yesterday personally stepped in to stop touts profiting from her brave comeback concerts at Wembley. She demanded that rogues who are asking up to £500 for a £98 pair of seats on internet auction site eBay have the tickets CANCELLED. Horrified Kylie acted after the 20,000 seats for her four gigs in January were sold out in just SIX minutes. Only minutes after that the first ones began appearing on eBay at grossly inflated prices. Kylie’s action is a major boost in the war on touts who are making the lives of honest young gig-goers a misery by pricing them out of the market. Now — after a furious complaint by the Aussie songbird — official ticket agencies have begun cancelling touted tickets in a major blow to the concert rip-off merchants. Net profits ... Kylie ticket on sale on eBay They have successfully tracked down those advertising the seats and written to them. A letter from See Tickets spells out that all seats they have ordered but not yet received will be cancelled. It states: “This is because you have sold your tickets to a third party without the express written permission from the promoters of the event.” The agency explained they were acting with the total backing of Kylie and her record label Parlophone. Many of the touts advertise tickets WITHOUT actually having them in their hands. See Tickets managing director Nigel Blackburn said: “We have found people are buying seats they don’t need so they can make a big profit on eBay — denying people who want them the opportunity to buy at a regular price. Crackdown ... Kylie this week “There has been a lot of pressure on eBay to stop this happening on their site. “We have been in conversation with Kylie’s promoters AAA about making sure we do our best to stop this in January.” Diva Kylie — making her comeback after surviving breast cancer — wants the cancelled tickets resold to genuine fans. Top promoter Harvey Goldsmith yesterday went one step further and demanded eBay stop selling all concert tickets in the battle against touts. He said: “eBay are an absolute disgrace. They have no right to be doing what they are doing. “They are a thorn in the side of this industry. Every time we do a show we have to track eBay down, we have to find the seats and we cancel them. We will continue to do so.”      Posted by: martinwarn on Sunday, August 06, 2006 - 12:14 AM