A Vancouver man who bought two tickets to Sunday’s USA vs. Canada hockey match, but didn’t receive the tickets he wanted, is suing a Vancouver ticket broker for $60,000.

Patrick O’Brien filed the lawsuit against Allstar Tickets last week in a Canadian court before the game, because he claimed the company did not deliver the two center-ice tickets he paid $4,600 for.

O’Brien claimed that finding two replacement center-ice tickets to the game, some of the most sought-after of the Vancouver Olympics, would have cost $60,000, according to CBC News. O’Brien was refunded his money but sued anyway.

Allstar Tickets, which reportedly did not deny having the tickets, declined to honor the purchase because, as a way of protecting itself, required O’Brien to provide photocopies of the credit card used and a valid ID before it would process the order. For ticket sales of more than $1,000, the company demands customers provide that information in an effort to avoid possible fraud. Despite multiple requests via phone and email, O’Brien reportedly never provided the information.

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“In this industry you can get a lot of people doing fraudulent ticket buys online, and we want to protect our customers as well as ourselves,” Allstar Tickets President Scott Ayre told CBC News.

In a separate incident last month, only a couple of weeks before the start of the Vancouver Olympics, scandal struck when major brokers and hundreds of customers were left without tickets after Atlanta, GA-based ticket company Action Seating was allegedly cheated out of thousands of tickets in a suspected fraud case. Action Seating was reportedly responsible for providing the tickets to the brokers, which had taken orders for the inventory.