Newsflash: Ticketmaster rips people off!
February 9th, 2009 at 8.17pm (News)
A class-action lawsuit has been launched against Ticketmaster and its subsidiary, TicketsNow, for violating an anti-scalping law. HOW SHOCKING!
On Friday, Springsteen fans hoping to see a show on May 7 at the Air Canada Centre in Toronto called the Star to complain that tickets sold out within minutes of going on sale online, but that more than 800 higher-priced tickets were available shortly afterward on TicketsNow, at prices up to $1,338.
The gist of it is that Ticketmaster is reselling its own tickets at ridiculously inflated prices on TicketsNow, which it happens to own, and so garnering even more profit than those incredibly dumb service charges that it slaps on everything. It’s getting to be like flying somewhere every time you buy a Ticketmaster ticket! What a mess.
Read the full article in the Toronto Star.
Tags: ticketmaster
barbara said,
February 10, 2009 at 12.31pm
I was very pleased to read this in the paper this morning, as I have been railing against this practice ever since Ticketmaster directed me to $200 Bloc Party tix (at Mac Hall!) after claiming that all the $27 tix were gone.
Suck on it, Ticketmaster!
Adam said,
February 10, 2009 at 4.08pm
The same thing happened to a my friend and I when we tried to purchase Radiohead tickets. All the tickets were sold out nearly instantaneously, but he was conveniently redirected to a site where he could purchase the exact same ticket for a few hundred dollars.
I hate ticketmaster!! >:o