National Gallery Cracks Down on Scalped Tickets
27 November '11 by the editors | Source: artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com
The National Gallery in London says it is cracking down on ticket-scalping for a major exhibition of the works of Leonardo da Vinci, which opened on Nov. 9.
BBC News reports that the gallery will enforce warnings that resold tickets “will be cancelled without refund and admission will be refused to the bearer,” and is asking resale Web sites to halt the practice. The museum declined to say how it would identify scalped tickets, according to the BBC. The show has drawn large crowds, and on Thursday, the U.K. eBay site listed the starting bid for a pair at up to $250 and the Viagogo site had a ticket as high as $389.01.
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