StubHub tricks customers into spending more on tickets by hiding fees until just before purchase, prosecutors claim
5 months, 1 week ago

StubHub tricks customers into spending more on tickets by hiding fees until just before purchase, prosecutors claim

Daily Mail  

StubHub is being taken to court by Washington DC's attorney general in a major lawsuit which sees the ticketing giant being accused of 'drip pricing,' an illegal practice of deceptively hiding the true price. 'StubHub intentionally hides the true price to boost profits at its customers' expense,' he said in a statement. 'StubHub intentionally hides the true price to boost profits at its customers' expense,' DC Attorney General Brian Schwalb said this week StubHub is one of the world´s largest resale platforms for tickets to sports, concerts, and other live events StubHub CEO Eric Baker, shown here, has yet to comment on the lawsuit StubHub is one of the world´s largest resale platforms for tickets to sports, concerts, and other live events. Washington residents´ per-capita spending on live entertainment outpaces that of many other major U.S. cities and since 2015, StubHub has sold nearly 5 million tickets in Washington and reaped about $118 million in fees, the suit states.

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Coldplay tickets row: Court junks PIL, says Govt can combat black-marketing of tickets
1 day, 11 hours ago

Coldplay tickets row: Court junks PIL, says Govt can combat black-marketing of tickets

India Today  

The Bombay High Court on Friday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation seeking the issuance of guidelines to curb black marketing and ticket scalping at major events. This came against the backdrop of alleged foul play during the online ticket sale process for British band Coldplay’s highly anticipated concert, scheduled to take place in Navi Mumbai later this month. The PIL …

Taylor Swift Fans Sue Ticketmaster for Price Gouging
55 years ago

Taylor Swift Fans Sue Ticketmaster for Price Gouging

Wired  

A group of almost 400 fans of Taylor Swift and other musicians filed a new lawsuit in California state court on Friday against Ticketmaster and its parent company Live Nation, accusing them of colluding with partner organizations to drive up ticket prices for concertgoers. The complaint, which expands on an existing federal court case brought by Swift fans, accuses Ticketmaster …

Coldplay to Diljit Dosanjh: Battling the fake ticket menace, India’s music scene is on the edge
1 month, 4 weeks ago

Coldplay to Diljit Dosanjh: Battling the fake ticket menace, India’s music scene is on the edge

Hindustan Times  

The coming weeks will see some of the biggest names in international music — Bryan Adams, Maroon 5, and Coldplay — perform in India. During singer-actor Diljit Dosanjh’s Dil-luminati concert in Delhi in October, the foul play left many of his fans deeply disappointed, with some paying hefty amounts to buy fake tickets and others falling prey to scalpers. When …

BookMyShow Scam: What is the Coldplay Ticket Scam? A Major Truth Uncovered!
3 months, 1 week ago

BookMyShow Scam: What is the Coldplay Ticket Scam? A Major Truth Uncovered!

ABP News  

A complaint has been filed against the ticket booking app BookMyShow for fraud related to the live tickets for Coldplay and Dilluminati Concerts. In this case, the Mumbai Police had summoned BookMyShow's CEO and co-founder, Ashish Hemrajani, on September 27; however, he did not appear before the investigating officers during the first summons. Recently, a significant scam involving BookMyShow and …

Washington, DC, sues StubHub, saying the resale platform inflates ticket prices with deceptive fees
5 months, 1 week ago

Washington, DC, sues StubHub, saying the resale platform inflates ticket prices with deceptive fees

Associated Press  

WASHINGTON — The attorney general for Washington, D.C., sued StubHub on Wednesday, accusing the ticket resale platform of advertising deceptively low prices and then ramping up prices with extra fees. The practice known as “drip pricing” violates consumer protection laws in the nation’s capital, Attorney General Brian Schwalb said. “We strongly support federal and state solutions that enhance existing laws …

Justice Department sues Live Nation, Ticketmaster over their ‘stranglehold’ on concert ticket industry
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Justice Department sues Live Nation, Ticketmaster over their ‘stranglehold’ on concert ticket industry

LA Times  

The Department of Justice on Thursday announced that it had filed a lawsuit against Ticketmaster’s Beverly Hills-based parent, Live Nation Entertainment, seeking to break up the company over allegations that it created an illegal monopoly over the live entertainment industry. The Justice Department said in a 2019 statement that the agreement “permitted Live Nation to merge with Ticketmaster but prohibited …

Online ticket booking platforms like Ticketmaster may need breakup, U.S. senators say
2 years, 1 month ago

Online ticket booking platforms like Ticketmaster may need breakup, U.S. senators say

The Hindu  

Ticketmaster and owner Live Nation Entertainment, the events ticketing giant behind the recently botched sale of Taylor Swift concert tickets, should be broken up by the Department of Justice if any misconduct is found in an ongoing investigation, Democratic senators said Monday. In a letter to the U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland, senators Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut, Amy Klobuchar of …

StubHub to refund canceled events after pandemic complaints
3 years, 8 months ago

StubHub to refund canceled events after pandemic complaints

Associated Press  

StubHub is offering some customers cash refunds for tickets to events that were canceled during the pandemic, creating an exception to a no-refunds policy it adopted in March 2020 to the dismay of many customers, the company told The Associated Press. In an interview, StubHub customer experience vice president Daron Fowlks declined to comment on litigation but said that customers …

StubHub, Ticketmaster win in MLB ticket lawsuit
4 years, 3 months ago

StubHub, Ticketmaster win in MLB ticket lawsuit

LA Times  

In April, when the baseball season was put on hold because of the coronavirus outbreak, fans sued over their inability to obtain ticket refunds for unplayed games. StubHub, Ticketmaster and two affiliated companies were dismissed from the suit on Monday by U.S. District Court Judge Dale Fischer. In April, when the suit was filed, MLB had advised teams to list …

Major League Baseball asks court to throw out ticket refund lawsuit
4 years, 5 months ago

Major League Baseball asks court to throw out ticket refund lawsuit

LA Times  

You wanted your money back. That was the brushback pitch Major League Baseball sent late Wednesday night, asking a California court to throw out a lawsuit claiming fans could not get refunds to games called off because of the coronavirus crisis. In April, when the suit was filed, MLB had advised teams to list unplayed games as postponed rather than …

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