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The Wynn seeks to cancel resold Garth Brooks tickets
Mon, Oct 26th 2009 11:53 am EST
The Wynn hotel in Las Vegas, home to Garth Brooks' upcoming residency, is vowing to cancel resold tickets, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. The first 20 dates of concerts sold out quickly over the weekend, and tickets are being sold for hundreds on the secondary ticket market. According to a hotel spokesperson, a team of people are working on canceling tickets that are resold.
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Comments represent the opinions of users and do not necessarily reflect the views of TicketNews.I've always wondered why there isn't legislation to protect consumers from these tactics, which basically amount to fraud on the part of the promoter/vendor. If a consumer buys tickets to a show, and the state legislation permits reselling, then he or she should be able to resell the tickets, simple as that. NY state's law is the only one I am aware of that makes it illegal for teams to penalize ticket holders who resell their tickets, why are there not more such laws on the books? Yes, it benefits brokers, but it also benefits consumers. If I buy two tickets to see Garth Brooks at the Wynn and later have a schedule conflict, why should I have to risk losing my money if I resell the tickets? Then again, the Wynn IS a casino, and I guess screwing people out of their money is just company policy.
Glad to SEE the NATB supports the Wynn casino each year, the mo rons will have the NATB convention at the WYNN hotel while wynn cancels all brokers tickets for garth brooks
The NATB has pulled it's annual convention from the Wynn.
Zealots like Wynn need to be careful with their attacks. All anyone has to do is put out a few bogus ebay listings with exact seat locations and they will be cancelling tickets they do not mean to cancel. There's usually more than one black eye that results form a tussle.
U2 said they would cancel fanclub tickets that had been resold for their previous tour in '05 but never did, probably because they realized the trouble it would cause to have hundreds of hard tickets show up at each venue and be refused entry.
Tom Petty did it for his MSG show in '06 dispite all the tickets having been printed. His strategy stopped there though. His management re-release all the same tickets he had cancelled so the brokers just picked them all back up again.
A small theatre in Milwaukee took a hard line stance against anyone reselling tickets for their venue. Now the venue has has drifted into obscurity with only B and C shows that do not warrant reselling anyway.
That's a fantastic idea! People should just put bogus seats on eBay at a very high price so no one will buy them, but the Wynn will cancel legit orders and have to deal with angry customers who had their order canceled for no reason.
Is everyone aware that there is no state, county or city law making scalping illegal in Nevada, Clark County or Las Vegas? They write tickets for a non-existant law, BRILLIANT!
I think Steve is referring to this:
http://library6.municode.com/11836/home.htm?infobase=16214&doc_action=wh...
Check out Chapter 12.38. Looks like a law to me.
HAHAHAHA.....certainly does look like a law to me as well!!!
Someone probably said "Hey dude.....you know what??....it isn't illegal to scalp in Nevada!" and thus it became act.
The last couple of concerts that I would have liked to have taken my wife and two daughters to (Taylor Swift) sold out (to scalpers) before they even were available to the general public. I know I am a tightwad, but how can people pay the crazy prices per ticket to these scalpers in today's economy. Obviously they do or the scalpers would get stuck with the tickets, but it drives me crazy.