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You and Yours: Secret ticket touts exposed

Secret ticket touts exposed

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How secret ticket touts use special software to push fans to the back of the ticket queue.

You and Yours reveals how secret groups of touts used special software to push Eurovision fans to the back of the ticket queue.

In a special investigation, reporter Shari Vahl reveals how secret groups of touts used special software to push Eurovision fans to the back of the ticket queue. And it's not just Eurovision - that feeling of missing out within minutes of the tickets being launched, then finding them at inflated prices on secondary seller sites, will be familiar to many concert-goers. Now You and Yours uncovers how this happens. The software, or bot, allows the touts to pretend they are real people in the queue - hundreds or thousands of them - forcing the real fans behind them. By the time the fans get to the front, all the tickets have gone.
PRESENTER: WINIFRED ROBINSON
PRODUCER: KEVIN MOUSLEY

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