Frontier Touring announces their support for the Big Day Out, who are reportedly being sued by eBay.
Searching for new anti-scalping methods to make sure genuine punters get tickets to the nation's biggest summer music festival, the Big Day Out organisers recently changes the wording of the conditions to imply that scalped tickets will be cancelled.An upset eBay is now taking legal action under trade practices law. eBay spokesman Daniel Filer said the rewording of scalping warnings on the tickets may breach fair trading laws and believes them to "be misleading and deceptive."
Festival co-producer Viv Lees told the ABC, "It is extremely rude of eBay to be standing on principle, potentially injuncting us from selling our own tickets while they continue to sell our tickets on their website."
Managing director Michael Gudinski of Frontier Touring has backed the Big Day Out organisers. In a press release, Gudinski said, "Ticket scalpers are bottom feeding scum" and stated that promoters have the right to protect the pricing and distribution of tickets to their own events.
"It's time to strike back at scalpers," Gudinski continued, "and we wish Big Day Out the best of luck in protecting their rights against eBay."
