{"id":340566,"date":"2010-02-19T13:49:42","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T18:49:42","guid":{"rendered":"tag:consumerist.com,2010:\/\/1.10002343"},"modified":"2010-02-19T13:53:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T18:53:00","slug":"ticketmaster-agrees-to-only-sell-tickets-it-has","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/340566","title":{"rendered":"Ticketmaster Agrees To Only Sell Tickets It Has"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/021910-002-ticket-thumb-200x133-37205.jpg\">         <\/p>\n<p>Ticketmaster has settled with the FTC over charges that it used <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-ct-tickemaster19-2010feb19,0,7604580.story\">&#8220;deceptive bait-and-switch&#8221;<\/a> tactics when selling concert tickets, reports the Los Angeles Times. As usual for this kind of settlement, Ticketmaster admits no wrongdoing. For instance, the FTC noted that in one case &#8220;the same set of 38 tickets for the Springsteen concert in Washington were sold and resold 1,600 times,&#8221; and Ticketmaster waited as long as three months to let affected customers know, which is a clear example of not doing anything wrong.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the settlement, Ticketmaster will have to refund overages for 14 concert dates, which may cost the company as much as $1 million. FTC Chairman Jon Leibowitz said he&#8217;s putting all ticketing agencies on notice about the practice:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Leibowitz said his agency was sending out warning letters to 10 other major ticket resellers, recommending that they review their websites &#8220;to ensure that you are not making any misleading statements or failing to provide material information to prospective purchasers of tickets listed on your site.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Leibowitz declined to identify the sites.<\/p>\n<p>Ticketmaster, he said, &#8220;seems to me by far the worst part of what we found.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/business\/la-fi-ct-tickemaster19-2010feb19,0,7604580.story\">&#8220;Ticketmaster accused of selling &#8216;phantom&#8217; Springsteen tickets&#8221;<\/a> [Los Angeles Times]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ticketmaster has settled with the FTC over charges that it used &#8220;deceptive bait-and-switch&#8221; tactics when selling concert tickets, reports the Los Angeles Times. As usual for this kind of settlement, Ticketmaster admits no wrongdoing. For instance, the FTC noted that in one case &#8220;the same set of 38 tickets for the Springsteen concert in Washington [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-340566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}