Black Sabbaths promoter Andy Copping, has publicly maligned online profiteers by calling them " disgusting" and urged the government to outlaw the practice.
Tickets for the recently announced Black Sabbath hometown show in Burmingham at the O2 Arena have already appeared on the internet for around 250 pounds, almost five times the original cost of 45 pounds.
The online profiteers are responsible for some of Black Sabbaths biggest fans not being able to attend the show as planned. The Sunday Mercury.net reports that fan Sean May , who incidentally has got frontman Ozzy Osbourne’s name tattooed on his knuckles missed out on tickets and cannot afford the cost the scalpers are charging on the internet. May stated, “I’ve been following the band since I was 14, but the real fans are missing out so these ticket scalpers can make money. I think it’s wrong, and it’s not the venue or the band that are profiting, it’s online ticket touts." It is well and truly time for goverments to stand up to these bottom feeding creeps that profit from the passion of fans. If you would like to voice your opposition, help make ticket scalping illegal in Australia and to get the websites that host these scalpers to ban premiums on tickets, sign the petition at http://www.thesefans.com.au/
