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Canada's Saskatchewan government looks at new ticketing rules
Fri, Nov 27th 2009 3:10 pm EST
The Saskatchewan government in Canada is looking into imposing new regulations to oversee ticket scalping in the province. According to The Star Phoenix, the Ticket Sales Act will prevent primary ticket sellers from linking to secondary ticket sites, and secondary ticket companies would not be allowed to resell tickets until 48 hours after they went on sale intially. Earlier this week, Saskatchewan Justice Minister Don Morgan also outlined other possible rules, such as secondary ticket resellers that are legally associated with a primary seller for particular event would also be restricted in how it sells tickets to that event, according to The Star Phoenix.
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Comments represent the opinions of users and do not necessarily reflect the views of TicketNews.This will be devastating to the secondary industry because of all the hot events that go on in Saskatchewan...
Haha, good one. The other annonymous guy's comment above is too funny! What ever would we do without our precious Saskatchewan money-makers?!
Ummm. I think I will do just fine without any Canadian inventory.
I read the article and a few things of note:
"As well, resellers will not be allowed to advertise the sale of tickets until 48 hours after tickets have gone on sale to the public."
I think the law would need to spell out what they consider a 'reseller.' Does anyone intending to sell their tickets count as a reseller, or only professional brokers (although I doubt there are many of the latter in Saskatchewan)?
"Senior Ticketmaster vice-president Joe Freeman said Ticketmaster doesn't divert tickets to the resale marketplace nor allow any broker preferential access to tickets."
I find this kind of funny. Obviously they no longer divert to TicketsNow directly, and they don't give brokers preferential treatment, but what about giving artists, promoters, etc. preferential treatment in re-selling their own tickets on TicketsNow, like so many are doing? Any legislation serious about regulating the ticket industry needs to prohibit anyone associated with the production of an event from reselling tickets for anything other than face value.
"prohibit anyone associated with the production of an event from reselling tickets for anything other than face value."
Why?
It's their event. They run it, they provide the talent, they market it, etc. Why limit what they can sell the tickets for? They are paying for the tickets to be printed in the first place. If we truly have a free market, let them sell a ticket for $3,000 if they have a buyer willing.
I see both sides of that argument...I think if you allow promoters, the box office, etc. to re-sell tickets at a premium, they would be crazy not to limit what is made available during the onsale and just mark it up at a premium and make a few bucks on the secondary market. This whole argument is stupid and the product of Ticketbastard trying to cover their asses by pinning their shady activities on the secondary market as a whole. Let's keep in mind that buying tickets is a luxury, not a necessity, and that we live in a free market society. If I have a $ 100 ticket and I want to sell it for $ 1000, I'm not going to be able to do so unless someone is willing to pay that much for it.