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Ticketmaster Pays $50,000 Fine, Closes More Than 100 Deceptive Site
Ticketmaster will pay a $50,000 fine and shutter more than 100 deceptive brokerage sites as part of a wide-reaching agreement with Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan. Madigan's office accused Ticketmaster's always shady subsidy, TicketsNow, of creating sites that masqueraded as local venues selling tickets at face value. The settlement also requires TicketsNow to wait until after Ticketmaster puts non-sporting events on sale before hawking tickets at outrageously inflated prices. More »

7:00 PM on Tue Jun 30 2009
By Carey
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Most discussed Michael Ortega: Ive never gone to a concert so I figured I would just to do it. Summerfest in Milwaukee is having more »
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Ticketmaster CEO Azoff On Scalping, Er, Dynamic Pricing
Having lost our Worst Company in America contest to AIG, Ticketmaster CEO Irving Azoff today accepted as his consolation prize an on-stage interview with The Wall Street Journal's Kara Swisher at the annual D conference. A long-time talent manager, Azoff was introduced via video by Eagle Joe Walsh who joked that Azoff has "a beautiful house that we bought him." Then things took a turn for the worse. More »

5:15 PM on Wed May 27 2009
By Marc Perton
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Most discussed emmpee9: What's wrong with paying market price for tickets, exactly? Capitalism and all that. If you don't like it, vote with more »
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Worst Company In America FINAL FOUR: Ticketmaster VS AIG
A loathed entertainment monopoly? Or an economy-wrecking out-of-control insurance company? Which do you hate more? More »

2:19 PM on Mon May 4 2009
By Meg Marco
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Most discussed JGKojak: A quiz to see if you're a little selfish and out of touch: When voting for worst corporation, I a. Choose the more »
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Worst Company In America: FINAL FOUR
Here we go people: It's the Final Countdown. Let's hear it for the last four companies standing. More »

1:05 PM on Mon May 4 2009
By Meg Marco
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Ticketmaster Tries To Evade California Law By Calling "Gift Card" A "Discount Card"
See this gift card, the one that says "GIFT CARD" in big letters? Ticketmaster insists it's really a "Discount Card," and thus, not covered by the California law preventing gift cards from expiring. More »

12:00 PM on Sun May 3 2009
By Carey
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Maybe This Ticketmaster Captcha Will Convince You To Rethink That Overpriced Concert

This is what must pass for an existential howl from a guilt-racked corporate monster.

4) How pricy [Brooklyn Vegan]
RELATED: Worst Company In America: Ticketmaster VS Citibank

8:00 AM on Sat Apr 25 2009
By Carey
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Most discussed Brandon Dean: Captchas suck, and thats just when you can decipher what the hell you are supposed to type. Sometimes it's so more »
wcia 2009
Worst Company In America: Ticketmaster VS Citibank
A bailed out bank? Or the ticket scalper's best friend? Who makes your blood boil? More »

1:25 PM on Fri Apr 24 2009
By Meg Marco
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Most discussed sweetnjoe: You all are friggin idiots for letting TM get this far. You don't have to buy tickets. You have to have more »
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Worst Company In America: Ticketmaster VS United Healthcare
A health care company that insures 70 million individuals nationwide? Or the ticket scalper's best friend? Which company ruins your day? More »

1:32 PM on Mon Apr 13 2009
By Meg Marco
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Most discussed johnva: Ticketmaster is winning? Seriously? Need I remind people about United Healthcare and their $124.8 million/year salary for their CEO? more »

wcia 2009
Worst Company In America: Ticketmaster VS Time Warner Cable
A cable company moving toward metered broadband — or the master of concert tickets... you make the call. More »

10:37 AM on Fri Mar 27 2009
By Meg Marco
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Ticketmaster Sells Phish Tickets Early, Then Cancels
Thousands of disappointed Phish fans are crying right now because Ticketmaster accidentally sold "a significant number" of 4-day passes to the upcoming show at Red Rocks — then canceled them. Phish fan and Consumerist reader Trevor has the scoop: More »

2:45 PM on Fri Mar 20 2009
By Meg Marco
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"TicketsNow Hangs Up When I Say 'Refund'"
TicketsNow has a pretty explicit guarantee that if the tickets you buy aren't good, they'll refund the money. In Sean's case, they seem to have found a way to avoid delivering on that promise: they just disconnect whenever he mentions the word "refund." More »

11:35 AM on Thu Mar 12 2009
By Chris Walters
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Most discussed tc4b: Why not chargeback? Especially if he's got the documentation to back up his claim. A month? He's more »
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Who's Scalping Those Concert Tickets? Artists And Agents, Frequently
The Wall Street Journal reported today that for many big name concert events, the people behind a good deal of the really expensive secondary market tickets are the artists themselves, along with their agents and promoters. Recent concerts where the artists and promoters resold tickets on the secondary market and split the profits with Ticketmaster include Neil Diamond, Bon Jovi, Celine Dion, Van Halen, Billy Joel, Elton John, and possibly Britney Spears. More »

6:53 PM on Wed Mar 11 2009
By Chris Walters
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Most discussed LastAndLeast: Who...the...hell...would...pay...$1164..to...see...Britney. ..freakin'...Spears? or anyone else for that matter. more »
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Ticketmaster Agrees To Stop Linking To TicketsNow
When the recent Bruce Springsteen ticket sales event blew up in Ticketmaster's stupid face, it brought down the wrath of New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram. Now Ticketmaster and New Jersey have reached a settlement that will change how the company conducts business across the U.S. Here's what will change: More »

2:50 PM on Mon Feb 23 2009
By Chris Walters
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Most discussed TrueBlue63: to improve its reputation as the government begins to look at their upcoming merger with Live Nation. So that buying tickets more »
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Ticketmaster Redirects Woman To TicketsNow, Sells Tickets That Don't Exist For Over $800

Will the Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger be good for customers? Why of course it will! Just take a look at this awesome purchasing experience Ticketmaster managed to provide recently: More »

1:53 PM on Fri Feb 13 2009
By Chris Walters
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Ticketmaster And Live Nation Agree To Merge
That booming evil laughter you heard echoing across the sky earlier today came from the board room where Live Nation and Ticketmaster agreed to an all-stock merger between their two blighted companies. Ticketmaster Chairman Barry Diller says the merger will benefit customers, who are frequently "frustrated by their ticket buying experiences." Oh! So by merging the two companies most responsible for those frustrations, we'll cancel them out! This is doubleplus good, right? More »

3:06 PM on Tue Feb 10 2009
By Chris Walters
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Most discussed sonneillon: Maybe we should avoid buying from Ticketmaster and start buying from their smaller competitors. If they don't make any money more »
Are you a New Jersey resident who was screwed out of Springsteen tickets by the Ticketmaster/TicketsNow "technical glitch"? The state's Division of Consumer Affairs would like to hear from you. There's a small box on the lower right corner of the home page that will take you to a complaint form. [NJ Consumer Affairs via MetsPolice] MORE »

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Congressman Wants Ticketmaster Investigated For 'TicketsNow' Website

Rep. Bill Pascrell Jr. (D) of New Jersey has asked the FTC and the Justice Department to investigate the relationship between Ticketmaster and its reseller website, TicketsNow, after consumers who tried to buy Bruce Springsteen tickets encountered technical problems that prevented purchase, and were then redirected to TicketsNow where prices were "hundreds of dollars above face value" (actually, more like "thousands of dollars," based on our check just a few minutes ago).

Update: Bruce Springsteen speaks out against the Ticketmaster/TicketsNow stunt, and reminds everyone why a Ticketmaster/Live Nation merger would be very bad. We've reprinted his letter below. More »

2:26 PM on Wed Feb 4 2009
By Chris Walters
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Most discussed GMFish: "beyond the eternal nuisance of scalping" Everyone is in favor of the first sale doctrine when it comes to the right more »
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Ticketmaster, Live Nation Consider Merging, Destroying Concertgoing Forever

The two companies most responsible for making your next live entertainment experience a financial disaster may announce a merger as early as this week, reports Reuters and the WSJ. If it goes ahead, the new company will apparently call itself Live Nation Ticketmaster, not "Satan's Boxoffice" as one might expect. The merger will raise antitrust issues, but if Sirius/XM has taught us anything, it's that those issues can be ignored at the expense of consumer choice and pricing.

"Ticketmaster, Live Nation in merger talks" [Reuters] (Thanks to WeSeed!)
(Photo: Anirudh Koul)

12:12 PM on Wed Feb 4 2009
By Chris Walters
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Most discussed nicemarmot617: I heard about this last night. I don't think the Obama administration will allow it. Usually I couldn't care less more »