Your favorite source for news on the worldwide controversy surrounding ticket fees – Fee Free Friday – is back! This week the dream of a world without (unreasonable) tickets fees remains unrealized. Will profits from ticket buyer metadata eclipse ticket fees? The owner of a ticket outlet becomes a billionaire, wanna guess how all that…
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Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the box office, Fee Free Friday returns. This week there is a whole new fight over ticket fee legislation as the soap opera in Baltimore continues. Some “enterprising jerks” have found a new way to disenfranchise ticket buyers. And just what is a “movie…
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Fee Free Friday – your weekly round-up of the worldwide controversy surrounding ticket fees – is back! This week marks a return to the hottest of ticket fee hotbeds, the City of Baltimore, where the $0.50 cap on fees is being questioned. New York Times reporter Ben Sisario files an investigative report on scalper bots.…
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Your weekly digest of the worldwide ticket fees controversy has returned! This week’s Fee Free Friday thought-crimes include ambiguous results after a reduction in ticket fees at a theater in St. Petersburg, Florida (victory or defeat?). There is also a disturbing development in Iowa City that sounds like it is straight out of George Orwell’s famous book ‘1984’. Plus, the Final Four Ticket…
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Are ticket fees in Maryland nevermore? The high court of appeals in Annapolis, Maryland has ruled on a landmark case. The ruling does not bode well for venues and events charging per-ticket fees. More importantly, the ruling may result in court ordered refunds to be issued to ticket buyers. Fee Free Friday has the very latest information.…
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The ticket service fees are 91% of the purchase price?! And that’s not the worst of it. This week Fee Free Friday walks the gritty streets of Los Angeles and Toronto to find all new ticket service fees horror stories. Also, the legal rhetoric against the ticket industry goes up another notch and a first…
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