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LILLEY: Laws already in place to protect ticket buyers, but rarely enforced

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A recent arrest has been made for allegedly selling fake Taylor Swift tickets.

The Toronto Police Service has released a news release detailing the arrest of Denise Tisor , who allegedly sold fraudulent tickets worth $ 70,000 .

Ontario ’s Ticket Sales Act, 2017 , makes it illegal to sell speculative tickets, meaning tickets people don’t already have in possession.

The law could also be updated to require that any reselling platform verify the ticket exists.

Many of the major resale platforms already do that with sports like baseball, hockey or basketball but refuse to do so for the lucrative concert market.

We will never completely be rid of scalpers, or the secondary ticket market as they now call it.

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