$500million$ class action against Ticketmaster...

[TheNiteHwk]

$500 Million Class Action Lawsuit Commenced in Ontario Against

Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc., Ticketmaster Canada Ltd., TNow

Entertainment Group, Inc. and Premium Inventory, Inc.



Who knows if anything will come of it...


Lawsuit Alleges Ticketmaster Conspired to Sell Tickets to Popular Events

at Inflated Prices via a Ticket Brokerage Owned by Ticketmaster

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TORONTO, Feb. 9 /CNW/ - A $500 Million Class Action was commenced today

against TICKETMASTER ENTERTAINMENT, INC., TICKETMASTER CANADA LTD., TNOW

ENTERTAINMENT GROUP, INC., and PREMIUM INVENTORY, INC. (the "Defendants")

claiming the Defendants conspired to divert tickets to popular events away

from Ticketmaster's lower priced portal available to the general public

(www.ticketmaster.ca), in favour of its ticket brokering website

www.ticketsnow.com, in which the same tickets were sold at premium prices. The

lawsuit contends that the practice of selling tickets in the secondary market

for amounts that exceed their face price contravene Ontario's anti-scalping

legislation.

The lawsuit also alleges that the fees and surcharges levied to the

general public by Ticketmaster also violate the Ontario legislation.

The lawsuit was initiated by a plaintiff who purchased two concert

tickets for $533.65 including service charges, but excluding shipping costs.

The same tickets would have cost him $133.00 on Ticketmaster's website, had

they been available. Ticketmaster's website directed him to the higher priced

tickets on the TicketsNow website.

"Customers have voiced concerns over the fact that tickets for the most

popular events can ostensibly sell out in minutes, only to become immediately

available in the secondary market at much higher prices," said Luciana Brasil

of Branch McMaster, one of the lawyers representing the Plaintiff.

"It is reasonable to expect consumers to be curious about the process by

which tickets are sold to them," said Jay Strosberg of Sutts Strosberg LLP,

one of the lawyers representing the plaintiff. "The mere fact that

Ticketmaster has a financial interest in both retail and premium ticket sales

leads to an obvious question about the process by which those tickets are sold

to members of the public and how it works."

The class action is commenced on behalf of all persons who purchased

tickets for an event in Ontario from Ticketmaster or through TicketsNow.com

from and after February 9, 2007.

For more information visit www.ticketmasterclassaction.com.

 

[sting]

ditto

 

[The Bandit]

You knew there was a reason why you either got shitty seats, or no seats at all. F'n crooks!

 

[Barca]

I hope TM go tits up. Scammers.

 

[blueman]

TM has had this coming to them for a VERY long time. I too hope they are buried alive but only after this dude gets paid. Good for him for attempting to put TM in its place (which btw is at the bottom of an over used cat litter box)

Fuck TM and all of its companies.

 

[TheNiteHwk]

That's what I say too...

Ditto all of the above... exactly why I posted.

 

[JEFF247]

Lawyers too!!

Ditto all of the above... exactly why I posted.

I hope you include the lawyers in the above action because if they win they will get $million$ and everyone that was wronged will get a nice shiney quarter if they are lucky!!

 

[tarkovsky]

Is it true Dan Akroyd started/ owns Ticketmaster?

 

[alexmst]

I got scammed by Ticketsnow once - never used them again. The event box office the night of the event was selling way better seats at half the price from what I paid 'Ticketsnow' after Ticketmaster's site said all the good seats at the event were "sold out".

 

[The Cunning Linguist]

Is it true Dan Akroyd started/ owns Ticketmaster?

I think he owns the "House of Blues" franchise. First original nightclub is in Chicago, then Vegas. As well as it's concert production arm.

 

[The Cunning Linguist]

I've bought tickets through Ticketmaster, on the regular website, and I've got good/great seats to the Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, The Tragically Hip, and Springsteen.

So-so seats to Elton John and Phil Collins.

The problem is there only so many front row center seats. I've never been closer than 20 rows back, floor seats, on the sides, or 10 rows up, in the platinum's, hard right of the stage(I'm talking Air Canada Center). But still, the sound was good, and I could see the peoples faces on stage clearly.

Also, so many of the great seats are already spoken for by industry types, radio contests, etc. before they ever even go on sale.

But I agree, Ticketmaster is scamming people.

Will anything be done? I doubt it. It's like the gas pricing...we all bitch and moan. but "official" investigations always reveal no collusion.

 

[GOLEAFSGO67]

hmm

these - co*ksu*king mother fricken dogan faced asswiped fuc*ing asshole jerkoffs - hope they drown in their own urine!!

 

[LancsLad]

I've said it before, but this can be the refresher.


Don't get mad, get even.


If enough people consistently boycotted all TM events and stayed away, things would change, plus you would have more coin for this hobby.



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[daty]

.................Also, so many of the great seats are already spoken for by industry types, radio contests, etc. before they ever
even go on sale.

But I agree, Ticketmaster is scamming people.

Will anything be done? I doubt it. It's like the gas pricing...we all bitch and moan. but "official" investigations always reveal no collusion.

those tickets are "contra" payment for free on air ads and "promotional consideration".... There was a time these were the seats nobody wanted ... Bad sight lines etc. but then the stations started using them as bonuses for their talent....We will just have to wait and see how and when we can apply for a share of the class action suit.....damn I knew I paid to much for Sesame Street Live.......

 

[tboy]

I'm actually surprised they didn't show in the article where you can sign up. They'd probably ask for a donation as well if you wanted to be part of the suit.

I actually didn't know you could still get tickets to an event at the box office. I thought all concerts were sold via ticketmaster? I can't remember the name but Ticketmaster used to have a competitor but was bought out. This has been going on for decades. I remember if you wanted any tickets other than nose bleed, you had to join ticketmaster's "front of the line" club. Kind of like seasons tickets to the leafs: the longer you were in, and which level of club you belonged to, determined which tickets you could get. I know a buddy who had med to cheap seats 10 and would trade his 10 with another guy who had really good seats 10 but would only get 4. I saw a lot of concerts that year. But I stopped going to concerts when the prices went from $10.00 for cheapie to $100.00. That's fricken insane.

As far as I am concerned, Ticketmaster was just the legal version of scalping.

(btw, I wanted to see Feist a few months ago and no reasonably good seats were available at the ticketmaster site but were at the high priced site. Pissed me off so I didn't go).

 

[shrek71]

I'm actually surprised they didn't show in the article where you can sign up. They'd probably ask for a donation as well if you wanted to be part of the suit.

http://www.ticketmasterclassaction.com/

Link to find out more information on the suit and to sign up if your are eligible.

Consider it a Public Service Announcement.

And to think that the police harass individual scalpers but do nothing to what amounts to mass flagrant scalping by a big corporation.

Cheers