Ticket touts selling Edinburgh Summer Sessions tickets for TRIPLE their value

Ticket touts are selling tickets to the Edinburgh Summer Sessions for triple the price of their face value.

Forth News has seen evidence of tickets to the city's Kasabian gig in Princes Street Gardens being sold for as much as £128 instead of their original value of £40.

It comes as Ticketmaster announces plans to shut down its two second-hand ticket sites 'Seatwave' and 'GetMeIn'. It's after both platforms have been criticised for hosting tickets being sold by so-called ticket touts.

The Summer Sessions concerts are taking place in the capital over the month of August and feature performances from Kasabian, Tom Jones and Paloma Faith.

But Adam Webb from the music fan campaign group 'Fanfair Alliance' says it's not fair that concert-goers are being ripped off: "People are being forced or encouraged to go to second-hand sites where they are having to pay way over the face value. Quite often the events haven't actually sold out and if people went to the event website they would find face value tickets.

"It takes alot of money outside of the music business, people who aren't involved are taking money out of the industry and not putting it back in.

"I think the secondary market has become dominated by these large-scale ticket touts and that undermines trust between artists, fans and event organisors."