GetMeIn is reselling tickets to BBC Proms but they don’t go on sale until NEXT YEAR
TICKET resale site GetMeIn is selling tickets for the BBC Proms 2018 even though the corporation isn't releasing tickets until next May.
Dates for the annual music event - which is funded by the licence fee - were announced at the end of last season, but you can already buy "second hand" tickets on GetMeIn.
Two touts are already selling seven tickets for the First Night of the Proms on July 13 and four for the Last Night of the Proms on September 8, even though official tickets don't go on sale for another seven months.
The Royal Albert Hall - who traditionally host the concert - haven't even listed it on their upcoming events calendar, which details events up until October 2018.
According to the listing, all tickets for the first night are in the Stalls and can be bought in maximum batches of two.
The two sellers say that the face value of the tickets are between £50 and £60 but one ticket costs up to £143 on the resale site - that's almost three times the "original" price.
Even though details of the cost of tickets for the 2018 concerts at the Royal Albert Hall haven't been released yet, last year tickets ranged between £7.50 and £100.
And what's worse is that purchasing one of these tickets through a third party - in this case GetMeIn - could be a breach of the event's terms and conditions, which potentially makes your ticket invalid.
Members of the Royal Albert Hall are allowed to sell their tickets through a third party seller, so it would still be valid on the door. But tickets sold on by a non-member will make it void.
This means that even after you've parted with your cash for a legitimate ticket, you might still be refused entry at the door.
Users are also using the site to sell invalid tickets to two other upcoming BBC funded shows, the BBC Sports Personality of the Year 2017 and BBC Radio 1Xtra Live 2017.
The terms and conditions to all three events clearly state that tickets that aren't purchased through the approved sellers will not be valid on the night.
But this is not clear to customers on the GetMeIn website, where people pay more than face value for tickets that it seems like they can't even use.
GetMeIn is owned by TicketMaster and let's anyone who has a ticket to sell list it online.
The sites are designed to let people without tickets buy passes from people who may no longer be able to use theirs.
But in reality, companies and touts buy up big batches of tickets from the original seller to then flog them on for inflated prices.
The popular BBC Radio 1Xtra Live event in Manchester sold out not long after tickets were released but there are still 56 of them available on the resale site.
Originally, they cost £18.70 including booking and venue fees, and you can only buy four tickets per transaction.
But they're fetching up to £110 EACH on GetMeIn and can be bought up to six tickets at a time, with no guarantee that you'll even be able use them on the night.
Tickets to the posh BBC Sports Personality of the Year awards ceremony are still available for £45 each from the official seller, Echo Arena Liverpool.
Despite this, you can still pick one up for up to £110 on GetMeIn, which is an apparent breach of the event's terms and conditions.
Even though if feels like the sellers are in the wrong, breaching the terms and conditions are actually the responsibility of the person who buys the ticket.
This could leave fans hugely out of pocket and still unable to see the show they paid for.
A spokesperson for the BBC said: "Tickets for BBC events should only be purchased from the official ticket seller and we cannot guarantee the validity of tickets purchased on other sites. Secondary-selling is an industry-wide issue and we strongly recommend the public do not buy tickets that are being resold."
Fans are increasingly calling for a clamp down on professional ticket touts who charge hugely inflated fees, with a gaining more than 17,000 signatures.
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The petition suggests a cap on ticket resale prices, but the government have said they won't be looking into it because it would be "extremely difficult to enforce."
FanFair Alliance, who pointed us in the direction of the shady practices adopted by sellers on some of these secondary ticketing websites, are urging regulators to crack down on the practice too.
GetMeIn does offer a free FANGUARD service which guarantees the buyer a 100 per cent refund if the ticket doesn't arrive in time for the gig, but it wouldn't protect them from tickets that breach the original terms and conditions.
The Sun Online has reached out to GetMeIn who is yet to comment.
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