The ever increasing consumer pain point of so-called “scalper bots” tops this week’s Fee Free Friday. If that term is new to you, scalper bot are malicious computer programs ( aka “robots” or simply “bots” ) that scalpers use to automate the task of buying tickets online. Using hundreds of thousands of these bots simultaneously,…
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Top heavy with legal wrangling and legislation, this week’s Fee Free Friday docket includes: Senators debate giving up their free concert ticket perk, expose leads to calls for an investigation, and $107.84 concert ticketing fee(!) Elected officials hard at work The California state senate debated if they should give up the millions of dollars worth…
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Memorial Day is the traditional start of Summer. That means the Summer concert season is just around the corner and so are unreasonably high ticket fees and service charges. This week Fee Free Friday shouts “Get out of water!” to a crowded beach full of hapless ticket buyers. Deafening silence The Fan Freedom project tweeted…
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It’s been a busy week in the war against high ticket fees. String Cheese Incident is taking on Ticketmaster by “scalping” its own tickets and there’s a new version of the BOSS ACT – These new high profile ticket fee disputes seem to shout “It’s on like Donkey Kong!”. The String Cheese Incident It was a front…
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Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford in the film classic ‘Mommie Dearest’ (1981) Mother’s Day is this Sunday so #FeeFreeFriday goes all “Tina bring me the axe!” Mommie Dearest on unreasonable per ticket fees and services charges. Today, we find three more topics of interest. Live Nation made $868 million in the past 90 days, and…
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