'Worthless' ticket guarantee; booking plane seats; parking charge victory
How a tout sold thousands of fake tickets through major ticket websites, and the shopping coupons still popular despite the digital age. Consumer news with Winifred Robinson.
We have a special report on the 'trusted seller' programmes quietly operated by the world's biggest secondary ticket websites. It's after one tout with trusted status fleeced THEM and left thousands of people with fake tickets.
The little shopping coupons still popular despite the digital age....
And how to sit where you want on a plane without paying over the odds.
Presenter: Winifred Robinson
Producer: Jon Douglas.
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- Thu 25 Jul 2013 12:0091Èȱ¬ Radio 4 FM
- Thu 25 Jul 2013 12:0491Èȱ¬ Radio 4 LW