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Attendees at Coalition for Ticket Fairness dinner stump up thousands for fighting fund – because they know their time might be up

“You’ve sold concert tickets, you’ve sold sports tickets, you’ve sold football tickets, you’ve sold theatre tickets … You’ve made money or you wouldn’t be in this room.”

The voice of Scot Tobias, one of America’s most successful ticket “brokers”, boomed out from the stage. After an hour of drinking and networking, his impassioned pitch was met with cheers by the room full of touts gathered in a subterranean events space in central London.