MCD respond to Arcade Fire ticket touting

In it, they call on the Government to take urgent action to curb the practice; suggest the naming and shaming of the guilty parties; and wherever possible promise to place a lifetime ban on touts purchasing tickets for MCD events.
Says a spokesperson: “Ticket touting has always been an issue for all Irish events including both sporting and entertainment. Promoters and artists are the only people actively trying to combat touting by placing restrictions on the number of tickets that can be purchased at a time. While this course of action goes against all economic sense, no other industry or business in the World places such voluntary restrictions limiting their sales. This is done out of genuine interest for the real fans.
“However, despite such action, it will never stop touting. We are not the legislators. Our hands are tied and thus yet AGAIN we call on the Government to urgently introduce legislation to end ticket touting once and for all.
We feel media outlets who carry advertisements on behalf of ticket touts are as guilty as the touts themselves as they provide the platform for the exploitation of such genuine fans. AGAIN, we also call on all media organisations to immediately stop accepting and profiteering from such advertisements.
“Any tickets offered for sale by touts will be tracked to the source, cancelled and resold to genuine fans. We also invite the media to expose all touts by naming and shaming them. Finally, MCD are actively imposing a lifetime ban on all touts purchasing tickets for our events.”