The Queensland Performing Arts Centre (QPAC) has experienced such a surge in ticket scalping in the past year that staff are now having to monitor potential fraudulent ticket sales on a daily basis.
As ABC reports, chief executive of the renowned Brisbane theatre, John Kotzas, said staff have had to "change their work pattern" in the last two months in a fight to stop ticket scammers.
"I can't emphasise enough how stressful it is for my team and the people concerned," Kotzas said.
"Queensland is a big state and 30 per cent of our audiences come from outside of Brisbane; imagine if they had travelled from Townsville and you couldn't get in."
One example of how QPAC are cracking down on potential scamming is by monitoring where bulk tickets are being purchased from.
"If we know multiple tickets are being bought from Ukraine, for example, then we shut down that channel as quick as we can," Kotzas told Brisbane's ABC Radio.
"It does make our job hard but we really need to have an honest relationship with all our patrons.
"The commercial transaction exists because of the trust between people buying the ticket and the people offering it and we're trying to preserve that."
A number of big acts are set to perform at QPAC over the coming months, including Washington, Glenn Hughes, Kathy Griffin and The Shins.
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