Music fans are being exploited by concert promoters who hand over thousands of tickets to a supposed ‘fan to fan’ reselling website where people are charged well above face value. An investigation by Channel 4’s Dispatches found that tickets for recent gigs and tours by Coldplay, Rihanna, Westlife, Take That and the V Festival were allocated by promoters to the site where fans think they are buying from other fans. The current affairs show went undercover at Viagogo, one of the UK’s biggest ticket re-selling sites, and found that the majority of the tickets it offered for sale were not from individual fans but from large scale professional ticket re-sellers or tickets allocated by promoters. Read more here--: Concert ticket scandal as promoters bypass fans and hand thousands direct to reselling websites