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It is a situation which many people have been faced with.

Tickets to that all important event you are desperate to see are sold out. The only option left is to pay way over face value through secondary websites or touts.

But that could all be about to change thanks to one of the UK's fastest growing businesses.

Music fan Richard Davies created Twickets after he saw a fan offering to give away tickets to a show for free on Twitter instead of letting them go to waste.

The London-based web designer believed that other people with tickets to events which they were unable to attend would rather sell them to real fans at face value or less instead of through expensive secondary ticket websites.

He went on to create @Twickets in 2011 with the rule that all tickets must be sold at face value or less.

The business has so far allowed people to sell on 45,000 'spare' tickets to events.

It follows anger rising in recent years over the cost of tickets through secondary websites such as Viagogo and Seatwave which mark up the price of tickets immediately after sale at the box office.

This has allowed Twickets to surge in popularity.

Mr Davies, 45, said: 'First and foremost it was set up to reduce empty seats at events which were supposedly sold out.

'I thought one of the reasons for that was because people cannot exchange tickets at the last minute if they have a change of plans.

'The other important thing is to ensure that fans are not being ripped off by overpriced tickets going spare by the expensive secondary ticket sites.

Its Twitter page has almost 14,000 followers with fans constantly tweeting ticket offers.

https://twitter.com/twickets

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