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RSS FeedsTicketmaster responds to Star/CBC investigation, vows to root out mass scalpers
(The Star Theatre)

 
 

20 september 2018 22:58:15

 
Ticketmaster responds to Star/CBC investigation, vows to root out mass scalpers
(The Star Theatre)
 


Ticketmaster has launched an internal review of its ticket reseller accounts and employee practices to ensure that scalpers who use bots to circumvent purchase limits aren’t using Ticketmaster’s resale software.The announcement came the day after the Star and CBC published an undercover investigation in which Ticketmaster employees told journalists posing as scalpers that the company turns a blind eye to how resellers acquire tickets.“We do not condone the statements made by the employee as the conduct described clearly violates our terms of service,” read a Ticketmaster statement published in Variety magazine.“Ticketmaster’s Seller Code of Conduct specifically prohibits resellers from purchasing tickets that exceed the posted ticket limit for an event. In addition, our policy also prohibits the creation of fictitious user accounts for the purpose of circumventing ticket limit detection in order to amass tickets intended for resale,” the statement read.Star and CBC reporters were told by two Ticketmaster employees on two different occasions that scalpers who use the company’s Trade Desk software will not be scrutinized, even if they have far more tickets than the ticket limit allows.Trade Desk software allows scalpers to synchronize multiple Ticketmaster accounts, each with a different name and credit card number — a common method used to access tickets beyond the limit.“I have brokers that have literally a couple of hundred Ticketmaster accounts,” said one Ticketmaster salesperson at the Ticket Summit 2018, a conference for scalpers held in Las Vegas this July. “They have to because if you want to get a good show and the ticket limit is six or eight (seats), you’re not going to make a living on eight tickets.”“We don’t spend any time looking at your Ticketmaster.com account. I don’t care what you buy. It doesn’t matter to me,” said the Trade Desk sa ...


 
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