The FTC acknowledges its suit is based in large part on revelations from a 2018 CBC News/Toronto Star investigation, in which reporters went undercover posing as “ticket brokers” and exposed how Ticketmaster recruited mass scalpers and knowingly let them use hundreds of fake accounts to circumvent ticket-buying limits.
I’ve heard this fairy tale before.
No, stop… buying all our tickets. Seriously, we are tired of creating shell companies to buy all our own tickets and then competing with other scalpers.
Sure they are going to stop something they profit from and partake in.
Suuuure they will.
Why don’t they just print the name of the purchaser on the ticket and require the person to have I’d when they show up to the venue?
Because the idea isn’t to ban resale at all, that means you couldn’t buy a ticket for your friend.
Its gotta be more targeted than that.
If the stupid Canadian train company can do it, where every ticket has a name stamped on it, even though only one person bought the tickets, and they check the passengers names at boarding, just like an airline would (yes), then why would ticketmaster and the skydome staff not be able to facilitate this?
You missed the point of nit being able to say “hey I can’t go to the concert, I’ll give my ticket to someone else”
Tough luck. That’s the price you pay for affordable tickets.
Because Ticketmaster is the third-party reseller.
Wouldn’t necessarily need to be the exact purchaser. Who ever buys the ticket puts down a name to go on the ticket. Like buying a plane ticket.
If it’s a group just the one name would suffice as long as that person is present, and make it so refunds or exchanges are easy to do if the person who gets it as a gift doesn’t want it.
Sure, but still means your banning you ever giving your ticket to someone else is what I’m getting at.
Like if you can’t go, you just have to eat the cost of the ticket.
Sure, unless they have a refund policy. Maybe you might get screwed if you’re plans change within like a week of the event but shit happens. Or maybe a system can happen where you can change your ticket after the return window closes and reprint it with a different name.
It’s not something that cannot be fixed or figured out. Just probably not in 5 minutes in a single comment, but you seem to think it’s impossible.
Like sure, I’m not saying a better system doesn’t exist.
I’m saying just going “print the name on the ticket” isn’t the easy grab.
I didn’t see a problem with the law limiting resale tickets to 150% of the face value. That seemed fine, but Ford repealed that law…
Just because you make a law don’t mean it won’t still happen. If they make it a law I guarantee you it won’t be enforced. What are people going to do? Phone the cops because people are selling tickets on Facebook for too much?
The only way to enforce it is at the entrance to the venue by making tickets invalid if they were resold without the venue giving some sort of permissions somehow.
You don’t think Ticketmaster, who has the ticket never leave their ecosystem, can’t enforce this well enough?
Like off market sales are gonna happen noatter what you do. But we could at least curtail platform sales …
Between that and limiting the number of tickets you can buy would knee cap scalpers IMO.
yeah sure i believe them
It’s all about marketing, thinking Ticketmaster said to themselves, if these scalpers are making so much money, we’re missing out on profit, the crackdown on scalpers is probably more about trying to capture lost revenue. Hi, my first post on this site. :P
It is a bigger scam. The artists get a percent of original ticket sales, but not scalped ticket sales. So Ticketmaster creates shell companies to scalp, and then they steal the artists’ cut. Classic.
Nice to have you here!
Gotta start somewhere, just like LiveNation on its journey for more profit after capturing the entire market.
Why did you wait six months to make your first comment? You missed out on having a new user tag!
Bullshiiiit. Companies will never do things they think will lose them profits. I used to pay $18-$25 a ticket and now its hundreds for the nose bleeds. Its 100% because of ticket master and I have no faith they’ll give those profits up. God they fucking suck.
ill believe it when i see it. Ticketmaster has enabled this behavior for the longest time.
Ticketmaster is by far the biggest scslper out there. They’ll do nothimg until their profits are tangibly impacted.
Ticketmaster is going to crack down on checks notes itself? Has there ever been a situation when a company promised to regulate itself that went well?
Ticketmaster the last time we went through these shenanigans
Yes, it went well for its shareholders. 🤭
This is top comedy.
Ticketmaster has long since enshittified into a monopoly that needs to grow so… now it chokes its customers dry. It’s in the order of infinite growth with limited resources
And yet my account gets locked down due to suspicious activity when my boss sends me tickets to hockey games given to us by clients.
Accepting a deal without admitting wrong doing, pay a token fine that looks big, but is really a pittance to these people.
Holy shit speaking of raw capitalism, I should start a hotline seeing as I’m psychic now!
Breaking news: ticket master solves scalpers from purchasing tickers on their site, now sells ALL tickets to itself, and re sells at higher markup on their subsidiary’s second hand ticket sale website.
Breaking News: Second hand ticket website, and subsidiary of Ticket Master, sees astronomical increase in automated scalper purchases, driving ticket costs even higher than already inflated 2nd hand reseller market.
