MODS - feel free to move if this isn't considered relevant. Pretty borderline, but Ticketmaster does help sell Flames tickets...so probs relevant.
Fascinating article in the CBC/Toronto Star about how Ticketmaster is unethical with their secondary market platform
https://www.thestar.com/news/investi...-business.html
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Originally Posted by Toronto Star
Inside a Caesars Palace conference room filled with some of the world’s most successful ticket scalpers, a row of promotional booths pitch software programs that help harvest thousands of sport and concert seats to be resold online at hefty markups.
As gatekeeper to the entertainment industry’s most coveted events, Ticketmaster implements strict purchasing limits designed to prevent scalpers from using bots to buy tickets on a mass scale. “If we identify breaches of these limits … we reserve the right to cancel any such orders,” read Ticketmaster’s general terms and conditions. “Use of automated means to purchase tickets is strictly prohibited.”
But in one corner of the Las Vegas convention floor sat a conspicuous Ticketmaster booth welcoming scalpers with a solemn reassurance: Ticketmaster wants to share in the profits of the resale market by facilitating the mass scalping of its tickets — in direct violation of its own terms of use.
But ticket resellers who break those rules have no reason to be concerned, the sales executive reassured. A blind eye will be turned. “I have brokers that have literally a couple of hundred Ticketmaster accounts,” said a sales executive with Ticketmaster Resale speaking to the undercover reporters.
Richard Powers, associate professor at University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, said “Helping to create a secondary market where purchasers are duped into paying higher prices, and securing themselves a second commission, should be illegal”.
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