The Dallas Cowboys are in the National Football League playoffs, and that has a lot of fans excited, including Mark, who planned to attend the game next week with a friend. Except, when he received the tickets purchased off of StubHub, they weren’t for the game in Jan. 2017, they were for the game in Jan. 2016. [More]
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Yankees Reach Deal To Allow Ticket Resales With StubHub
By 6.27.16
If you were planning to resell tickets to a New York Yankees game in the future you’ll need to visit StubHub instead of Ticketmaster, as the Major League Baseball team reached a deal this weekend to transfer its resale business, Yankees Ticket Exchange, to StubHub. [More]
StubHub Becomes First NBA Jersey Advertiser, Thanks To 76ers
By 5.16.16
The Philadelphia 76ers are arguably the perfect choice for a company looking to test the waters by being the first to advertise on an NBA jersey. The team has been awful for the last few seasons, so most fans’ opinion of the Sixers can’t sink any lower. And those fans who still have some reserve venom in the tank now have a new reason to scream at the team. [More]
New York Attorney General Calls For Caps On Ticket Resale Prices, Outlawing Of Scalper Bots
By 1.28.16
When you go to buy tickets for a popular concert or sporting event, you likely know that you’ll ultimately have to make your purchase from a ticket reseller who will mark up the price to try maximize their profit. But the New York state attorney general is calling on the state legislature to put new rules into place that would protect consumers from scalpers who swoop in and buy up every ticket before they are available to actual fans. [More]
Super Bowl Tickets Going For Record Prices In The Resale Market
By 1.26.16
If you’re planning on heading to California on Feb. 7 to catch the Super Bowl showdown between the Denver Broncos and the Carolina Panthers, be ready to have your bank account sacked. Tickets for the big game are currently selling for record-high prices.
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How StubHub’s Policies Let Greedy Ticket Sellers Screw Fans Over
By 1.8.16
If you buy tickets on StubHub, they come with a guarantee, which is great. Additionally, any seller who cancels tickets after they’ve been sold could face a financial penalty for doing so. But that penalty doesn’t seem to be enough to stop the most unsavory sellers from violating the rules. [More]
Court Throws Out StubHub’s Lawsuit Against Ticketmaster, Golden State Warriors
By 11.9.15
Last spring, StubHub sued both Ticketmaster and the NBA’s Golden State Warriors, alleging that the team had threatened to cancel the subscriptions of season ticket holders if they tried to resell any of their tickets via StubHub instead of Ticketmaster’s secondary ticket exchange service. But last week, a federal judge dismissed StubHub’s case. [More]
StubHub Backs Away From “All-In” Ticket Pricing: What You See Might Not Be What You Pay, After All
By 9.14.15
Despite announcing a plan to be more transparent about its ticket prices with a shift to an “All-In” pricing model that told customers exactly how much money they’d be paying for their purchases with all the extra fees applied, StubHub has now backed away from that system, and is instead displaying prices that are lower than what buyers will end up forking over at checkout. [More]
Ticketmaster Says It Stands For “True Fan-Friendly Competition”
By 3.30.15
Over the weekend, StubHub filed a lawsuit against Ticketmaster and the NBA’s Golden State Warriors, alleging that the team and the ticket company are forcing Warriors season-ticket subscribers to use Ticketmaster if they want to resell their seats to anyone. Ticketmaster is now defending itself and says that it is the one that’s on the side of sports fans. [More]
StubHub Files Antitrust Suit Against Ticketmaster, Golden State Warriors
By 3.30.15
eBay-owned ticket resale site StubHub has sued both Ticketmaster and the NBA’s Golden State Warriors for allegedly threatening to cancel the subscriptions of season ticket holders if they try to resell any of their tickets via StubHub. [More]
How To Avoid Getting Duped When Buying Tickets Online
By 8.19.14
Purchasing tickets to see your favorite musician in concert or to cheer on the hometown team should be a relatively pain-free, if not exciting, experience. But with the onset of new technology and less-than-truthful resellers, a shadow of deception can cloud consumers’ ticket buying decisions. [More]
StubHub Music App Doesn’t Play Nice With Ticketmaster
By 8.6.14
The StubHub Music app, which just launched to a national audience, aims to connect music lovers with concert tickets. And if a show isn’t sold out, the reseller will sometimes even point you to tickets you can buy from the venue — but not if those tickets are being sold by Ticketmaster. [More]
StubHub Customers’ Accounts Hacked, Authorities Across The World Investigating
By 7.23.14
Didn’t purchase those tickets on your StubHub account? Well, join the club, because numerous accounts on the ticket resale site were recently hacked. [More]
StubHub Users Seeking World Cup Tickets In Brazil Stymied By Cyber Attack
By 5.7.14
Soccer fans (yes, other countries, we know you call it football) in Brazil trying to score resold tickets on StubHub in that country have been blocked from doing so after the site suffered a large denial-of-service attack and shut down. This, amidst the insistence of soccer’s governing body FIFA and the Brazilian government that all tickets to the upcoming World Coup tournament should come directly from FIFA. [More]
Super Bowl Ticket Scalpers Need A Hug Because Nobody Is Making Them Rich This Year
By 1.30.14
Can we pause for a moment to reflect on the plight of the lowly Super Bowl ticket scalper? He toils thanklessly for his art and all he asks in return is that you pay him several thousands of dollars to watch a football game in which you probably have no personal stake. With heartless, penny-pinching fans taking a risk by purchasing their Super Bowl tickets through “legitimate” means, this year’s scalpers may be forced to sink to selling NHL or NBA tickets just to pay the rent. [More]
StubHub Announces New “All-In” Pricing: The Listed Ticket Price You See Is What You’ll Pay
By 1.22.14
Remember how Ticketmaster promised it was going to be all upfront and transparent about which service fees and charges you’d be paying on tickets, but then sort of dropped the ball? It’s now StubHub’s turn to promise more transparency, with its new “All-in” ticket pricing announcement today. It basically promises that the price you see for a listed ticket is the total price you’ll end up paying at checkout. [More]
StubHub Cancels $6 World Series Ticket, Ends Up Giving The Guy A Seat Anyway
By 10.23.13
Yesterday baseball fans were probably super jealous of the lucky guy who snagged a $6 ticket to Game 1 of the World Series in Boston on StubHub — half in fees, half the listed price for the ticket — but it seems whoever sold the ticket wasn’t too pleased about it. According to the buyer, StubHub yanked the ticket, citing it as a “fraudulent purchase.” [More]
Lucky Guy Is Probably The Only Person Going To Game 1 Of The World Series For $6
By 10.22.13
On the one hand, it’s pretty darn awesome and amazing that a guy was able to buy a ticket to Game 1 of the World Series for only $6 on StubHub. But it’s also a bit sad for whoever listed that ticket, as it was probably — okay, most definitely — a mistake. [More]
