The pair have agreed to a police idea to protect people from fraudulent ticket websites by sending out tickets to buyers for their festivals and live event as soon as possible, instead of waiting until just before the event, in an attempt to cut down on ticket scams from fake websites.
Usually festival tickets are sent out as close to the start of the event as possible, in an effort to stop scammers from copying tickets but instead this has resulted in festival goers buying from fake merchants thinking that the tickets would turn up later.
Police have revealed that this delay, sometimes as long as for six months, makes it difficult to prove that fake ticket selling sites do not have the tickets to sell in the first place.
The National Fraud Authority says that more than £168m is lost annually through ticket scams. Deputy Chief Superintendent Steve Head, of the City of London Police, told the BBC (here) that sending out printed tickets immediately should cut down on this kind of crime.
"We believe that (sending out printed tickets early) would stop a lot of people being the victims, because we'd be able to act on it quicker, convicting the kind of people we want to convict. It's not about business, they are fraudsters."
Please make sure any tickets you buy are legitimate. eFestivals always links to official ticket outlets (and doesn't host adverts for unofficial outlets unlike other festival websites!) so you can be sure that any ticket bought via eFestivals will get you into the festival of your choice.
Do not purchase tickets from unofficial or secondary ticket outlets or auction sites as they often are unable to supply the tickets, and might not even give you a refund - there's lots of dodgy operators out there!