Days after thousands of Bruce Springsteen tickets were mistakenly oversold by TicketsNow for an upcoming show in the city, Washington, DC Attorney General Peter Nickles is launching an investigation into…
OPINION: The Chiefs are on the warpath against scalpers as they look to fill Waikato Stadium in the run-up to the Super 14 finals. Last week, ahead of the sellout…
Michigan has a law against the scalping of tickets for sports events, theater performances, circuses and the like. It shouldn’t – as events involving Michigan State University illustrate. Followers of…
At the zenith of the luxury movement in sports: New Yankee Stadium, where the best tickets cost $2,625. Not per season–per game. Faced with this absurdity, a Yankee fan has…
Fan-to-fan ticket exchange Seatwave topped the league table at last night’s Media Momentum Awards with revenue growth of 2203% over the past two years. Seatwave won Fastest Growing Company and…
It’s known as “scalping” for a reason: Usually when you buy a ticket from a reseller you can expect to pay a hefty markup. But in a bright spot created…
By Richard Kastelein Dutch legislative update – Netherlands Socialist Party Member of Parliament Arda Gerkens – has been working on anti-Secondary Ticket legislation since 2007 – and is a member…
In a recent interview with Canadian broadcast network CTV, Ticketmaster‘s Senior VP Joe Freeman discussed the company’s paperless ticketing technology and briefly addressed consumer issues with its beleaguered subsidiary TicketsNow….
Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty has signed into law a new bill that aims to make ticket resale more transparent in the Land of 10,000 Lakes. The bill, SF0759, requires promoters,…
While revenues for Ticketmaster Entertainment rose 7 percent to $373.8 million for the quarter ended March 31, 2009, the company’s profits spiraled down almost 80 percent to a mere $7.2…