BBC Blue Peter fights eBay ticket touts
Published June 20th, 2006
Blue Peter will introduce ID cards for badge-winners to stop the pins being traded on eBay.
The BBC children’s show wants to stop people ‘defrauding the system’ of badges, which grants free admission to 200 British attractions.
Bosses found parents wanting to save money on family outings were snapping up second-hand pins and they suspended the perk from March.
Featuring the winner’s name and a ship hologram, the new ID cards were designed by Blue Peter viewer Helen Jennings, 11.
Editor Richard Marson said: ‘Helen has really helped all the genuine ship emblem badge winners out there who have been so upset at the suspension.’
