Ticketmaster sued for scalping in Canada
p2pnet news view | Freedom:- Ticketmaster already has Bruce Springsteen on its case in the US and in Canada, a $500-million class-action lawsuit has now been fired up against it because, say Vancouver class action specialist Branch McMaster (right), and Sutts, Strosberg in Toronto, it violates Canada’s anti-scalping laws.
The firms are acting for Ontario customers who bought tickets through Ticketmaster or TicketsNow.com from and after February 9, 2007, they say, according to the Canwest News Service.
In the US, Springsteen is angry with Ticketmaster because of its proposed merger with Live Nation, and because fans were sent to TicketsNow.com, a Ticketmaster resale site, where tickets for one of his shows were being sold at well over the odds.
Ticketmaster CEO Irving Azoff grovelled to Springsteen that the rip-off was “inadvertent”.
The Canadian lawsuit claims Ticketmaster “conspired to divert tickets to popular events” from its main website to its own ticket auction website, www.TicketsNow.com,” says Canwest.
“The representing plaintiff in the lawsuit also claims that he had recently bought two concert tickets for $533.65 including service charges on TicketsNow.com. The lawyers are claiming that their client would have only had to pay $133.00 for the pair if they were available on Ticketmaster’s main website. The plaintiff says he was directed to the more expensive tickets by Ticketmaster.”
(Cheers, Marc)
Bruce Springsteen – Springsteen angry over Ticketmaster rip-off, February 6, 2009
Canwest News Service – Ticketmaster faces $500M class-action lawsuit, February 6, 2009
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February 10th, 2009 at 11:29 am
Go Bruce!
February 10th, 2009 at 11:32 am
Quebec is now looking at making a class action as well.
February 10th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
Good! This monopoly has gone on for too long. I hate the fact that they tack on their arbitrarily-determined “convenience charge”, then charge another couple of bucks for me to print the tickets using my own paper and toner.
It would be a good day if we finally see them get their comeuppance… and hopefully some healthy competition with a different ticket provider.