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.
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.