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Reader Santiago CC'd us on a letter to Ticketmaster's parent company, IAC. As we've mentioned before, Radiohead fans are upset with Ticketmaster for linking to and promoting a "partner" ticket reseller that is charging exorbitant amounts of money for hard-to-get Radiohead tickets.
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Dear Ticketmaster, Stop Scalping Your Own Tickets
Reader Santiago CC'd us on a letter to Ticketmaster's parent company, IAC. As we've mentioned before, Radiohead fans are upset with Ticketmaster for linking to and promoting a "partner" ticket reseller that is charging exorbitant amounts of money for hard-to-get Radiohead tickets.
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worst company in america
Round 34: Sony vs Ticketmaster
This is Round 34 in our Worst Company in America contest, Sony vs Ticketmaster.
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This is a post in our Worst Company In America 2008 series. The companies nominated for this honor were chosen by you, the readers. Keep track of all the goings on at consumerist.com/tag/worst-company-in-america
STILL OPEN FOR VOTING: Comcast vs The American Arbitration Association
tickets
Ticketmaster is directing fans seeking hard-to-find Radiohead tickets to a ticket-reselling partner website called "Tickets Now."
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Ticketmaster Now In The Ticket Scalping Business?
Ticketmaster is directing fans seeking hard-to-find Radiohead tickets to a ticket-reselling partner website called "Tickets Now."
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astroturfing
With over 150,000 fans, Ticketmaster's Facebook page is one of the most popular. Too bad most of its friends' profiles are fake.
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Ticketmaster's Facebook Page Is Full Of Fake Friends
With over 150,000 fans, Ticketmaster's Facebook page is one of the most popular. Too bad most of its friends' profiles are fake.
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Ticketmaster charged reader Keith $655 in convenience charges to for two tickets to tonight's Rangers/Devils playoff game. Of course, the tickets in section 118 cost nothing, but we still won't give them the benefit of the doubt. Ticketmaster boasts that special brand of evil that wouldn't object to levying several hundred dollars in convenience charges to a free Raffi concert.
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Ticketmaster Levies Entirely Believable $327 Per Ticket Convenience Charge
Ticketmaster charged reader Keith $655 in convenience charges to for two tickets to tonight's Rangers/Devils playoff game. Of course, the tickets in section 118 cost nothing, but we still won't give them the benefit of the doubt. Ticketmaster boasts that special brand of evil that wouldn't object to levying several hundred dollars in convenience charges to a free Raffi concert.
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Ticketmaster Charges 168% Of 3 Doors Down Ticket Price In Fees
Reader Brent was furious to find three lawn tickets bought through Ticketmaster, priced at $13 each, came to the ridiculous total of $106.20. First there's the facility fee, then there's the mandatory parking, a processing fee, and the "convenience" charge for purchasing the tickets online. After all the fees were piled on, the $13 tickets now cost $35.40 each. Brent's letter, and a breakdown of the charges, inside: More »
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Round 3: Ticketmaster vs Wachovia
This is round 3 in our Worst Company In America contest, Ticketmaster vs. Wachovia. Their crimes?
Ticketmaster's inability to fix their system allows scalpers to buy up all the tickets for a concert within minutes, depriving fans of their chance to get a ticket for a fair price. On top of that, Ticketmaster routinely obtains sole vendor relationships with venues, so that even the initial ticket prices are inflated.
For their part, Wachovia profited in millions by allowing scammers to use stolen identities to drain money from customers' accounts with unsigned checks, despite receiving thousands of warnings about the fraud.
Choose the greater of two evils.
This is a post in our Worst Company In America 2008 series. Keep track of all the goings on at consumerist.com/tag/worst-company-in-america/
STILL OPEN FOR VOTING: Facebook vs The American Arbitration Association, Comcast vs Menu Foods
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Class Action Targets Ticket Resellers
Remember RMG Technologies, the horrible little company that made five-year-olds cry by snatching up all the Hannah Montana tickets? Boaz Lissauer, a New Jesery plastic surgeon, recently sued them and other ticket resellers after paying $195 for nosebleed seats worth $63 to see the Police in Madison Square Garden. Lissauer is now asking a Pittsburgh court for class action status. More »
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Live Nation To Challenge Ticketmaster, Sell Fans More Junk
The nation's largest concert promoter, Live Nation, is ditching Ticketmaster to build its own ticketing system. Live Nation may not be as soul-crushingly evil as Ticketmaster—we hear they issue refunds!—but their goal in breaking away is to squeeze more profit from customers by hawking "additional merchandise." More »
lawsuits
Why Do Ticketmaster Events Sell Out Instantly?
Ticketmaster is suing RMG Technologies for selling lecherous software that instantly sucks up tickets to everyone's favorite concerts and sporting events. Groups like RMG are the reason tickets sell out just minutes after going on sale, only to mysteriously reappear at outrageously marked up prices on ticket resale sites like StubHub. More »
news from the parking lot
StubHub Releases Names Of 13,000 Ticket Resellers To Patriots
The New England Patriots last week received the names of 13,000 people who bought or sold Pats tickets through StubHub. Season ticket holders are rightly concerned that the Pats may now revoke the subscriptions of those who circumvented the Pats' own Ticketmaster-run system. More »
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StubHub Becomes Official Scalper Of Major League Baseball
Private ticket sales will emerge from the shadows under a five year agreement signed by Major League Baseball that will make StubHub the only official site where fans can buy and sell baseball tickets amongst themselves. 25 of the 30 MLB teams already run secondary ticket trading sites, but starting in 2008, they will consolidate under a StubHub-run, MLB-branded site. Some teams are less than excited. More »
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Ticketmaster And Kelly Clarkson Cost You $3.75
Reader Shaun writes:My wife wanted to go to an upcoming Kelly Clarkson concert and we bought tickets. Clarkson has now cancelled the concert and Ticketmaster is givinga refund; however, they won't refund the processing fee. This seems ridiculous to me, they should be refunding the whole amount. Is there any grounds for them to keep my processing fee? Thanks!More »
scam artists
Scam Alert: Entertainment Rewards and Ticketmaster
We've gotten a report that the Ticketmaster.com "Entertainment Rewards" scam is still going on, despite a cooling down of complaints online at sites like Rip Off Report and Entertainment Reward Scam. More »
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