Spain wants to regulate the legal resale of tickets. The risk: Let the "BOLI BIC A 300 euros"

The situation with the resale of entries has become so unsustainable that the government has had to take action on the matter and raise a limitation to prices that tickets can reach. The lack of control has given rise to reappearing the ghost of the black market and without control: what can happen if the legal platforms of resale disappear, would the resale disappear? Everything suggests that no …

Sustainable consumption law. That is the name that receives the Draft approved this Tuesday In the Council of Ministers, and that raises an important novelty in the ticket market: it will be prohibited to resell them at a higher price than the original, plus the accumulated variation of the consumer price index (CPI). For example, if an entrance cost 100 euros and the CPI has risen 3% since then, the maximum legal price of resale will be 103 euros.

The intention is clear: to stop the bubble of the bursts of inputs, which currently move legally on authorized platforms such as the Fan to Fan of Ticketmaster, Stubhub either Ticketswap.

By the clouds. The problem that exists with the purchase and sale of tickets in Spain we have spoken on the occasion of events such as the Bad Bunny concerts of 2026: not only to get ticket was, a few weeks ago, a Mission practically impossiblebut resale It finds no limitations. Thus, almost immediate entries reach exorbitant prices in resale platformsreaching quintupply the original amount.

The problem problem. According to ‘El País‘, this artificially swollen market of resale is aggravated by the use of bots, a practice prohibited by law but very difficult to pursue and demonstrate. From consumption confirm to the newspaper that “the great economic incentives generated by this resale hinder the applicability” of this prohibition. Thus this law is born: if prices shoot, “they would turn this activity in illegal, being able to urge the blocking of the web pages where the infraction and the consequent sanction for the offender were producing.”

Black market risk. There is an important risk of increasing the black market for the sale of tickets with this new law. If these legal platforms have sink, part of the unsatisfied demand can move to unregulated channels, where prices would continue to shoot and there would be no guarantees for the buyer. In Spain, without going any further, there was already A parallel black market Before the arrival of this law, especially in highly demanded events. Tickets were sold on social networks, messaging groups or unofficial portals, and those roads could be reactivated if there is demand.

Would we see that legendary claim of “I sell Boli Bic for 300 euros and gift entrance of Bad Bunny”, mythical code to place tickets without saying that tickets are being sold?

The European case. In countries such as France or the United Kingdom, situations have been experienced that situations could be repeated in Spain. Since 2012, France has One of the strictest laws in Europe against the unauthorized inputs. The law prohibits the resale of tickets for shows without the consent of the organizer, with fines that can reach 15,000 euros (platforms such as Viagogo They have been sanctioned repeatedly for selling tickets at prices far superior to the officer). Despite this, the black market continues to represent Between 10% and 25% of total salesespecially in large concerts and sporting events.

The case of the United Kingdom is more similar to Spain today: the secondary market has platforms such as Stubhub, Viago and Getmein!, Which have often dominated the resale with prices well above the nominal value. There are laws that require transparency in information (for example, show the exact seat and the original price) but, as in Spain, speculation and use of bots to monopolize tickets remain an important problem. In 2024, the United Kingdom reported More than 9,800 cases of fraud Related to ticket resale, with losses that exceeded 9.7 million pounds.

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