Open Menu
AllLocalCommunitiesAbout
lotide
AllLocalCommunitiesAbout
Login

Ticketmaster may have violated consumer protection laws | The UK’s CMA weighs in after the Oasis reunion tour ticketing fiasco.

⁨93⁩ ⁨likes⁩

Submitted ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩ by ⁨Tea@programming.dev⁩ to ⁨technology@lemmy.world⁩

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/cma-seeks-changes-to-the-way-ticketmaster-labels-tickets-and-provides-pricing-information-to-fans

source

Comments

Sort:hotnewtop
  • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Can’t tell you how many events I’ve wanted to attend and opted out because they use Ticketmaster. I was even given free tickets and stayed home because I refused to download their shitty app.

    I wish people had more self respect.

    source
    • scytale@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      For the free tickets you got, I think it’s possible to go to the box office at the venue and ask them to print paper tickets for you.

      source
      • Ulrich@feddit.org ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Good to know

        source
      • acosmichippo@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        some places do this, not all. i try every time to keep the ticket as a memento.

        source
  • 9point6@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ticketmaster only exists to reduce the income of musicians.

    The musicians would exist without Ticketmaster

    The venues would exist without Ticketmaster

    The crowd would exist without Ticketmaster

    They only extract value

    source
  • troyunrau@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ticketmaster is cancer

    source
  • scytale@lemm.ee ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    They also take advantage of people in a rush to grab tickets or someone else gets them first, so people just buy whatever they can click, not noticing they are dynamically priced.

    source
  • RonnyZittledong@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Ticketmaster is one of those companies that is so aggressively anti-consumer that it deserves the corporate death penalty. There is just nothing redeeming about it.

    source