{"id":240093,"date":"2025-10-21T03:31:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:31:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/240093\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T03:31:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T03:31:06","slug":"ticketmaster-denies-ftc-claims-that-it-works-with-scalpers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/240093\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticketmaster Denies FTC Claims That It Works With Scalpers"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tTicketmaster<\/a> unveiled what it says are new measures to stop scalpers by barring users and ticket brokers from making multiple accounts, requiring resellers to use taxpayer ID verification, and using AI tools for \u201cfaster assessment and cancellation of bot-purchased tickets,\u201d as a Federal Trade Commission lawsuit<\/a> filed last month continues that accuses the platform of working with resellers to elevate prices. The letter states that \u201cTicketmaster does more than anyone to fight bots and get tickets into the hands of real fans.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe announcement was made via a lengthy letter written to the senators behind the lawsuit by the company\u2019s executive vice president Dan Wall, obtained by Variety, with a goal to \u201cincrease the percentage of tickets going to real fans\u201d by utilizing the Social Security number or taxpayer ID verification to cancel scalper accounts. Wall also said the company will not allow brokers to exceed the platform\u2019s ticket resale limits, another accusation in the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

\n\tTicketmaster will also discontinue TradeDesk, a tool that allows resellers to track their ticket sales, although Live Nation<\/a> denied that the tool was being used to mislead customers, as stated in the lawsuit.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe company also denied other allegations made in the lawsuit, claiming that it does not collude with ticket resellers to elevate prices, and that it violate the Better Online Ticket Sales Act (BOTS Act), a 2016 law meant to stop bots from reselling tickets at high prices.<\/p>\n

\n\tNot surprisingly, independent venue and touring organizations were quick to criticize the claims made in the letter. In a statement, the National Independent Venue Assn. wrote: \u201cLive Nation\u2019s \u2018actions\u2019 on resale detailed in a\u00a0letter to Congress\u00a0are too little and too late to get back the trust of fans, artists, and stages. They apparently\u00a0got caught\u00a0opening up their systems to predatory resellers, which is a betrayal of fans and artists. This looks like an attempt to clean up their devastated public image following the Federal Trade Commission\u2019s strong BOTS Act and deceptive practices case against them. Based on that suit and this letter, we have seen clear evidence that Live Nation and Ticketmaster are in bed with scalpers, and resale platforms like StubHub and Vivid Seats benefit daily from it.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe meaningful way to repair the damage done by Live Nation\u2019s alleged collusion with scalpers is for them to voluntarily cap resale tickets on their resale platform at no more than the face value of the original ticket.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tAlso on Monday, the National Independent Talent Association, a trade group for independent U.S. managers, agents, and artists they represent, wrote, \u201cTicketmaster nor any other platform\u00a0should engage in reselling tickets above face value.\u00a0This practice\u00a0hurts\u00a0both\u00a0artists and\u00a0their fans. We are encouraged that the FTC\u2019s efforts have already led\u00a0to Ticketmaster reforming its systems by canceling multiple broker accounts and improving its efforts\u00a0regarding\u00a0BOTS sweeps.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tVariety will have more on the situation as it develops.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ticketmaster unveiled what it says are new measures to stop scalpers by barring users and ticket brokers from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240094,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[28,9827,101271],"class_list":["post-240093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-live-nation","tag-ticketmaster"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=240093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240093\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}