Over at the normally laid-back Indie Credential, JustHipper wants to ‘kill all touts‘:

The thing is, back in the old days, the touts bought up some tickets, not like, say, half via the internet cause they had to queue up all night just like the rest of us, and then they hawked them outside the gig on the night. These days, they can spam the system of every ticket website going, keep the real fans out and buy up hundreds of tickets which they can quite easily sell on via eBay. Seriously, it’s just gotten out of control.

She points to hundreds of tickets for The Killers’ November tour appearing on eBay mere hours after selling out. See for yourself: Killers tickets – 415 active auctions some five days later.

Aside from a comical £10m winning bids, plenty of pairs seem to have gone for £500 or more. Are people purposefully spoiling the auctions, as JustHipper did, or are they really paying this much? I sincerely hope not…

I also spotted that the farce went one step further, with someone successfully selling just a link to a pre-sales ticket page for £5. Postage, you’ll be glad to hear, was free.