Posts about Ticketmaster

Arkansas Court Tells Ticketmaster It Is Bound By Anti-Scalping Laws
The Arkansas Supreme Court has issued a legal kick to the gut of the fee-happy folks at Ticketmaster and Live Nation, confirming that the ticket seller is bound by the same state laws that prevent scalpers from piling on fees and charging exorbitant prices. More »

Jam Band Fights The Ticketmaster Man By Scalping Its Own Tickets
You're not the only one who's sick and tired of all the fees levied on event tickets sold through Ticketmaster. Members of jam band String Cheese Incident are so fed up with fans having to shell out extra cash, that they're taking a stand by buying up bunches of tickets and reselling those to concertgoers, sans fees. So sort of a reverse scalp, maybe? More »

Scalpers Use ADA Loophole To Snatch Up, Resell Tickets Meant For Disabled
At some sporting and concert venues, seating spaces reserved for people with disabilities can sometimes be prime spots. So it's sadly not surprising that unscrupulous scalpers are taking advantage of a loophole in the Americans with Disabilities Act that makes it legal for them to buy up blocks of these seats and then resell them to people without disabilities. More »

Worst Company In America Round 3: Bank Of America Vs. Ticketmaster
For several years now, these two terrible titans of industry have been locks to make the Worst Company semifinals. But in a year with so many bad businesses in contention, only one of these perennial favorites will make it through to the next round. More »

Two weeks ago, 32 of the nation's worst businesses entered the Worst Company In America Battledome Nonagon, hoping to prove they could out-twit, overcharge and outlast the others to ultimately be named the Worst Company In America 2012. Two dozen companies have since been fed to the shark-eating robot piranhas and only eight remain with a chance to be crowned with the Golden Poo. More »

Ticketmaster Gets Into Spirit Of Worst Company Tournament, Encourages Staffers To Vote
With a little more than six hours to go before voting closes on the second round Worst Company In America bout between Spirit Airlines and Ticketmaster, a source at Live Nation tells us that senior staff are encouraging employees to vote on the matchup. More »

10 Examples Of Why You Shouldn't Sell Naming Rights To Just Anyone
It's near-impossible to find a sporting or concert venue in the U.S. without the name of some bank/oil company/car maker/beverage slapped on the front. While most of these are innocuous — and some have even grown to be accepted by the public — there are a handful of naming rights deals where the venue owners shouldn't have gone with the highest bidder. More »

Worst Company In America: Ticketmaster Vs. Spirit Airlines
Voting on this round is completely free! You just pay shipping, handling, service charges, print-at-home surcharges, voting tax, a 7% resort fee, and a $25 "because we can" charge. More »

Which Worst Company Contenders Force Customers Into Mandatory Arbitration?
As we sifted through the mountain of nominations for this year's Worst Company In America tournament, we noticed a trend of readers who cited companies' mandatory binding arbitration clauses as a reason for nominating. And while it's businesses like AT&T and Sony that have made all the headlines for effectively banning class action lawsuits, there are a lot of other WCIA contenders who are forcing customers into signing away their rights. More »

The floor of the Worst Company In America BattleDome is stained with the blood of the vanquished. But only one company can earn the privilege of placing the WCIA Golden Poo in its trophy case, so the violence must continue. More »

Worst Company In America Round One: Sallie Mae Vs. Ticketmaster
For today's afternoon bout, two companies that probably avoid walking down dark alleys for fear of being beaten up by angry consumers get a chance to kick each other in the teeth. More »

Welcome to Consumerist's 7th Annual Worst Company In America tournament, where the businesses you nominated face off for a title that none of them will publicly admit to wanting — but which all of them try their hardest to earn. So it's time to fill in the brackets and start another office pool. That is, unless you work at one of the 32 companies competing in the tournament. More »

Ticketmaster: Two Tickets Per Household Literally Means Two Tickets Bought From Within Your House
Consumerist reader Laura recently went online to buy two pairs of concert tickets, one for herself and a second pair in a different section for her boss and his wife. But when she went to go print out these tickets last week, she found that the second pair had been cancelled several weeks earlier without telling her. More »

Woman Says Ticketmaster Threatened To Blacklist Her For Contacting American Express
With the clock ticking down until we open the floor up to Worst Company In America nominations, perennial Final Four contender Ticketmaster is here to remind everyone why they belong in the tournament. More »

When You Buy A Paperless Ticket To An Event, Do You Actually Own It?
Consumers might be laboring under a misapprehension when it comes to reselling tickets to games, concerts and other live fare. One might think that purchasing a ticket would equal the right to do whatever you want with it, barring the practice of scalping. Maybe not. More »

You Could Score $1.50 As Part Of Class Action Suit Against Ticketmaster
Start greasing up your piggy bank, Ticketmaster users! If you bought tickets from the online behemoth between October 21, 1999 and October 19, 2011, you could be entitled to anywhere from $1.50 to $25.50 as part of a settlement in a class action suit. More »

Ticketmaster Promises To Restore Lost Radiohead Tickets, But Doesn't
Tonight and tomorrow night, Radiohead, a band from England that you may have heard of, is playing two shows at the Roseland Ballroom in New York. The show was announced only a few weeks ago, and tickets went on sale Monday. Through Ticketmaster. Yes, this ends about as well for reader Kelsey as you would expect. More »

Ticketmaster Makes Deal With Walmart, Devil Confused As To Whose Soul To Collect First
Earlier today the nation's largest retailer, Walmart, announced a deal with the nation's least essential company, Ticketmaster, to sell overpriced tickets via in-store video screens at hundreds of Walmarts around the country. More »

Ticketmaster To Lower Admission Prices On Poor-Selling Events
If no one's buying tickets to events later this year, Ticketmaster will start to lower the price of admission as the date draws nearer. The concept, which it's calling "dynamic pricing," will punish early buyers and reward those who hold out until the days before a slow-selling event takes place. On the other hand, if ticket sales start speeding back up, Ticketmaster could raise the prices. More »

Worst Company In America Final Four: Bank Of America Vs. Ticketmaster
This year's WCIA Final Four kicks off with a rematch of the closest fight from last year's tournament. More »

Here They Are: Your Worst Company In America Final Four!
Thirty-two entered. Four remain. And in the end, there can be only one. More »

Worst Company In America Elite 8: Ticketmaster Vs. Chase
The fisticuffs continue with today's battle between last year's runner-up and a surging contender with promise for future tournaments. More »

Say Hello To Your Worst Company In America Elite 8!
Two rounds of WCIA bloodshed are in the book and the beaten bodies of 24 multi-billion dollar companies are being hauled off to be burned on a pyre. But for those businesses left standing — let's call them the Elite 8 — the parade of pain marches on. More »

Worst Company In America Sweet 16: Ticketmaster Vs. Sony
We were going to buy tickets to this Sweet 16 battle, but Ticketmaster tried to charge us twice the face value for printing the tickets at home. And then we looked into watching the online stream, except our computer won't work properly since Sony's copy-protection software exposed it to malware. More »

Meet Your Worst Company In America Sweet 16!
After eight days and 16 first round battles, the WCIA steel cage is littered with the bones of those companies not crappy enough to continue on in the tournament. But the thrill of victory is fleeting for the remaining combatants, all of whom must square off again if they hope of crowning themselves the Worst Company In America! More »

Worst Company In America Round One: Ticketmaster Vs. PayPal
Like having to choose between a punch in the face or a kick in the gut, there are no good guys in today's early WCIA bout! More »

Here's Your Lineup For Worst Company In America 2011!
For the sixth year in a row, we asked Consumerist readers to send us their nominations for our Worst Company In America tournament. And this year's response was the greatest by far. More »

Ticketmaster Charges $327.50 In Fees For One Florence And The Machine Ticket?
Ticketmaster is known for getting away with charging high service fees for its tickets thanks to its effective monopoly over the concert business, but reader Mark noticed a fee that really takes the cake — and smashes it! Right now a ticket for a Florence and the Machine show is showing up as having $327.50 in fees. Talk about a kiss with a fist! More »

Ticketmaster Settles Class Action Lawsuit
If you bought a ticket from Ticketmaster between Oct '99 and May '10, get ready for some bucks/ticket discounts coming your way. Ticketmaster has agreed to settle a class action lawsuit brought against it in 2003 that alleged the ticket giant's processing fees were just a "profit component" and didn't recoup any actual costs of doing business. More »

Ticketmaster Won't Refund Shipping Charge For Unshipped World Series Tickets
As mentioned earlier, the World Series starts tonight. Consumerist reader Louis is doubly ticked-off because A) his Yankees aren't playing and B) Ticketmaster is still holding onto some of the money he paid for tickets to a game he'll never see. More »

Ticketmaster Promises Better Transparency On Pricing
Ticketmaster has announced that for some venues, it will begin showing the combined ticket price (actual ticket + service fees) up front, and will allow a short refund window of three days. The company is still loathsome—on their blog, the CEO Nathan Hubbard chummily states that when it comes to service fees, "You don't like them mostly because you don't understand what the heck they are for." But these are still welcome changes to what's almost always the worst part of attending a live event: dealing with Ticketmaster. More »