Touts hire people to purchase concert and sporting event tickets in bulk from overseas. There are tout companies in Islamabad, Karachi, and Lahore that bill in US dollars. Events in the USA, Britain, and Germany are the targets of touts.Touts employ overseas workers to bulk-buy gig tickets
Ticket touts are employing teams of workers to bulk-buy tickets for the UK’s biggest concerts like Oasis and Taylor Swift so they can be resold for profit, a BBC investigation has found.
BBC uncovered some touts are making “millions” hiring people overseas, known as “ticket pullers”, with one telling an undercover journalist his team bought hundreds of tickets for Swift’s Eras tour last year.
BBC reporter, posing as a would-be tout, secretly recorded the boss of a ticket pulling company in Pakistan who said they could set up a team for us and potentially buy hundreds of tickets.
The UK government plans new legislation to crack down on touts but critics argue it does not go far enough.More than 900,000 tickets were sold for Oasis’s long-awaited reunion tour, which starts in Cardiff next Friday.
But thousands of frustrated fans failed to get tickets for the sell-out gigs after spending hours in online queues
