John Bynorth from Sundayherald.com is reporting:

Fans of the rock band AC/DC have criticised one of the UK's leading agents for letting fans sell unwanted tickets for their eagerly awaited Hampden Park gig later this year at vastly inflated prices on two of its websites.

Ticketmaster, which runs a multi-million pound franchise selling tickets for theatre, sports and music events, is one of the licensed ticket sellers for the band's 43-date world tour to accompany their first album in eight years, Black Ice.

Although the band's emotional final gig at the national stadium on June 30 is almost sold out, fans are angry the firm is allowing people to sell tickets on two separate re-sale websites for double their £60 face value.

The row is the latest to affect the ticketing agency after the Royal Shakespeare Company withdrew its allocation for its sell-out production of Hamlet, starring David Tennant. It had discovered one of Ticketmaster's re-sale websites selling tickets for £600 each.

Martin Gallagher, 44, who obtained a ticket for £55 from another source, was surprised to find Ticketmaster's website allowing people he described as touts to re-sell unwanted tickets. The company strenuously denied that it forwards its allocations of tickets to Soldouteventtickets.com and getmein.com, where they cost more than £100 each.

Gallagher told the Sunday Herald: "Most of the tickets sold out within minutes and it seems the only way for fans to get them is through websites, two of which are owned by Ticketmaster."

Gallagher, a scientist from Milngavie, near Glasgow, who plans to see the band with six fellow former members of Glasgow University's rock society, said Ticketmaster's actions created the impression the firm were passing off tickets for touts to sell at "up to three times" their value.

He added: "The demand for tickets is huge as AC/DC haven't played live for eight years. People are desperate to see them and Ticketmaster is taking advantage of that. Although it's a lot of money, the sellers know that most of the fans are middle-aged and have a lot of disposable income so are willing to pay the prices, and that the band are unlikely to do another tour."

His friend, Phil Slavin, 37, a teacher from Bearsden, added: "It's the question of whether you are willing to spend £350 for a ticket from a website which is owned by Ticketmaster.

"It makes it appear like it is selling quotas, and has a certain number of tickets. I am sure it is not doing anything illegal, but it's not ethical. You have to wonder if this will stop people going to see bands and kill live music.

"The people who will not be happy will be the band playing in front of half-empty stadiums, and the real fans who could have gone."

Ticketmaster claims it has been forced into the move to give fans security after unscrupulous websites offered tickets to fans - who paid over-inflated prices - which they then did not provide.

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