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Villar denounces ticket scalping: Sen. Mark A. Villar denounces the proliferation of ticket scalping or the practice of reselling admission tickets at an inflated or predatory price, undermining the consumers' right to fair access to entertainment scenes and encouraging price gouging. “These scalpers robbed legitimate fans of having a possibly once in a life time experience of meeting the artist that they have long been supporting,” said Villar, author of Senate Bill No. 2873 otherwise known as the Anti-Ticket Scalping Act, during Thursday’s hearing, January 16, 2025, of the Committee on Justice and Human Rights. “We must look at the matter because of the multifaceted effect it has on sports and concert industry, especially for fans who lose on the supposedly concert on their lives, meeting their idols that they rarely see,” he said. In 2024 alone, at least 154 concerts are scheduled to be held in the country, while records show that revenue from music events rose from $27 million in 2017 to $32.8 million in 2018, drawing in a total of 2.13 million audiences. (Senate Public Relations and Information Bureau) |
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