Two ticket touts who bought and resold large numbers of EdSheeran and TaylorSwift concert tickets online have been jailed for a total of six and a half years in a landmark British court case.
In total, Hunter and Smith earned at least £10.8 million from their ticket selling operation, jurors at Leeds Crown Court were told. When investigators raided their homes, they found more than 100 different payment cards in 37 names. The couple also used 88 different postal addresses and around 300 email addresses to evade platform restrictions.
Following the guilty verdicts, Hunter was sentenced Feb. 24 to four years in prison. Smith will spend two and a half years behind bars. upon sentencing. "A lot of people in this case paid a lot more [for tickets] than they could have paid," he said. He called it a fantastic result "for music lovers across the U.K. [that] should also send shockwaves through the likes of Viagogo and StubHub whose businesses are dependent upon large-scale resellers."
A spokesperson for Viagogo issued a statement following the sentencing, excoriating Hunter and Smith's "fraudelent activity" on their platform and calling for greater collaboration between primary and secondary markets.
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