Belgium Blocks Secondary Ticketing Site Access

They demand that resellers refund customers with the difference between the original ticket price and what the touts using the sites asked for, which was up to euro 3,000 for an Adele ticket, according to Test-Achats.

Consumer rights organization Test-Achats launched a class action lawsuit against Ticketsbelgie, Topticketshop.nl and Rang1tickets.nl. 

Since October of 2013, Belgium has prohibited the organized resale of concert tickets, also on foreign sites. But the problem is not only tickets being sold at exorbitant prices.

The investigation sparked by Test-Achats and led by consumer affairs minister Kris Peeters found out that the three sites in question sold euro 400,000 worth of fraudulent tickets to concerts by Adele, K3 and others, according to a report by IQ Magazine. Thus a Belgian court has ordered the countries ISPs to block access to those sites. With a lot of them operating out of Holland, a similar investigation has been launched there.