Ricky Gervais fans who used the Viagogo resale site to buy tickets for Scottish gigs have been warned they may be turned away at the door.The warning was sounded after scores of fans were denied entry to the comic’s Armageddon stand-up gig in York’s Barbican venue on Wednesday night.Ticketing investigator Reg Walker, of the Iridium Consultancy said Viagogo customers heading to the gigs at the SEC Armadillo in Glasgow on January 31 and February 1 should be “very nervous”.The primary Ticket sale on Ticketmaster for The Office's creator was hammered by an army of greedy touts, some of who were able to get more than 100 tickets across the tour using illegal methods.And Viagogo happily sold on the briefs, even though their own site, in small lettering, warns that people might be turned away.Walker said: “My advice to anyone with tickets for future Ricky Gervais gigs - including those in Scotland - would be to be very mindful that they could be turned away if they bought them from Viagogo.“The terms and conditions clearly state a limit on how many tickets a person can buy.“The reality is that the Ricky Gervais tour, like many others, has been hammered by ticket touts, who have used totally fraudulent methods to get scores of tickets, using multiple identities.“These strategies are proven to be fraud and it is the consumer who is losing out - in this case many of them have paid way over the odds for tickets and they haven’t even got in.“It is known that more than 80% of all trade on Viagogo is by touts and Viagogo has benefited massively from the criminal actions of a proportion of those people.”He added: “Any promoter or venue who knowingly allows the trading of tickets which were bought fraudulently risks becoming complicit
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