The consumer organisation Fédération romande des consommateurs (FRC, The Consumer Federation for French-speaking Switzerland) has launched a campaign to fight ticket touting and raise awareness of official ticket sellers among consumers.
Entitled ‘Ticket Check’ the programme aims to help consumers identify official ticket sale and resale points. A logo has been created to help identify the official platforms.
The FRC claims to receive daily complaints from people who feel they were cheated when they bought tickets online. The campaign recommends that consumers should not use the first ticket-selling website that they see at the top of search results when using Google or Bing. In most cases these websites are unauthorised platforms that are not official event partners.
Supporters of the campaign include UEFA, SMPA, Opus One, SecuTix among others.
More information can be found via the FRC website.