You open a new case related to Ticketone e Live Nation: after Coldplay, in fact, it's the turn of the controversy around the long-awaited Italian leg of the band's tour U2, 'U2: The Joshua Tree Tour 2017', scheduled at the Stadio Olimpico in Rome on 15 July. In fact, on the seller's website, the tickets sold out within a few minutes, ending up at very high prices on "secondary ticketing" sites, such as Viagogo, where the cheapest tickets were at 199 euros.
To add a patch Live Nation, which organizes the concert, has announced a "second and last date" for July 16th. In Rome there will therefore be two consecutive evenings of the tour which aims to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of the band's fifth album of the same name. Live Nation had ended up in the eye of the storm a few months ago, when an investigation by Le Iene had brought to light the practice of selling part of the tickets directly to online scalping sites, triggering the harsh reactions, among others, of Vasco Rossi .
In the meantime, SIAE has made it known that it has today presented an emergency appeal to the Civil Court of Rome "to protect both the rights of its members and consumers who find themselves paying up to 10 times more for entrance tickets on the parallel market".
The legal action was taken together with Federconsumatori: "After seeing that yesterday, 25 minutes after the opening of ticket sales on official channels, some sites put tickets on sale on the secondary market at considerably higher prices for the concert of July 15, we decided to act immediately – explained Gaetano Blandini general director of SIAE.
An increasingly widespread problem, that of online scalping. To combat it, a clear choice is needed: obscure the sites that practice it or nominally check each ticket (with the possibility, however, of moderate inconvenience), or again, as is being attempted in England, allow payment, via electronic money, only upon entering the Arena, and not upon booking.
