Fans Warned To Be Careful Over Fake Tickets

• 8th Apr 2009

Fans have been warned against buying fake tickets for the Reading Festival, after Trading Standards identified a rash of seventy bogus sites offering tickets to the sold-out event.

The BBC quote councillor Paul Gittings, lead for environment and sustainability, as saying: “People should take care to only buy from the official website and beware fakes. The difficulty we have is that some of these websites are very impressive indeed and designed to entice and attract consumers into using them. The whole appearance and layout of these sites makes them look official and genuine. Many of these websites are simply online ticket touts, resellers of tickets, who are working on the customer's desperation by promising tickets for a sold out event”.