Ticket resellers in the U.K. are hiring overseas purchasers as a way to secure large batches of tickets for profit, icing out regular fans looking to attend Taylor Swift and Oasis concerts.
An undercover investigation from the BBC alleges that large-scale ticket resellers, or “touts,” are said to be employing teams in India and Pakistan, called “ticket pullers,” who use sophisticated means of ticket purchasing — including automated software and gaming of the online queue system — as a way to circumvent per-person limits on ticket buys.
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“They buy in bulk most of the time in the hope of reselling and
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