# Tout selling £1million of U2 tickets has raised questions about clampdown on bot use for bulk-buying

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/tout-selling-1million-of-u2-tickets-has-raised-questions-about-clampdown-on-bot-use-for-bulk-buying/
- Published: 2026-11-15T10:39:58+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-15T11:33:52+00:00
- Original publisher: NME
- Original article: https://www.nme.com/news/music/tout-1million-u2-tickets-raised-questions-clampdown-bot-use-bulk-buying-3975982
- Topics: Entertainment, Music

## Key points

- More than 2,000 U2 tickets appeared on StubHub.
- Listings could exceed £1 million if sold.
- UK plans to ban profit-making resale are not yet law.

## Summary

A ticket seller advertised more than £1 million worth of tickets for U2’s four London stadium shows, prompting renewed questions about bulk buying and ticket resale rules. The concerts sold out shortly after going on sale, and the scale of the listings has raised concerns about whether bots or speculative selling were involved, though neither has been confirmed.

An investigation found more than 2,000 tickets listed on StubHub, including over 1,800 for one night, with some priced at more than four times face value. Using bots to evade purchase limits has been illegal in the UK since 2018; StubHub says it prohibits speculative selling and bots, while Ticketmaster says it blocks 20 billion bots each month. A proposed UK ban on reselling tickets above face value has not yet become law.

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