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RSS FeedsTicketmaster facing class action lawsuits over ticket resales
(The Star Food)

 
 

23 september 2018 00:07:12

 
Ticketmaster facing class action lawsuits over ticket resales
(The Star Food)
 


Class action lawsuits in Canada and the U.S. are in the works against Ticketmaster — the world’s largest ticket seller, with a virtual monopoly on major events across North America — following a Toronto Star/CBC investigation that revealed new details about the company’s selling techniques.Regina-based class action firm Merchant Law Group LLP, which already has a class action filed against Ticketmaster alleging inflated ticket prices, has confirmed it intends to expand that claim to include Star/CBC reporting, captured on hidden cameras, that Ticketmaster actively recruits scalpers to resell its tickets through its TradeDesk “professional reseller program.”The web-based software, which was promoted by Ticketmaster employees at a Las Vegas scalper convention in July, empowers scalpers to manage large inventories of seats obtained from Ticketmaster.com and resell them with commissions for both the scalpers and Ticketmaster.Read more:We tracked every ticket for Saturday’s Bruno Mars concert to uncover how fans are being gougedWe went undercover as ticket scalpers — and Ticketmaster offered to help us do businessTicketmaster responds to Star/CBC investigation, vows to root out mass scalpers “It’s a result of the Star/CBC investigation that got us looking at whether we can advance a claim successfully for breach of competition and consumer affairs legislation,” said firm principal Tony Merchant. “We knew about the issues of scalpers. But we did not know there was evidence available of them working conjunctively with scalpers. Getting those things on camera are things a court will listen to … You’ve sent us back to the drawing board. ”Total damages against the company could top $100 million, Merchant said in an interview Saturday.In the U.S., law firm Hagens Berman has posted on its website an open invitation — under the headline “Ticketmaster’s TradeDesk Scalpi ...


 
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