by Sam Pocker, Special to TicketNews I wanted to take a moment to explain Ticketmaster’s “Verified Fan” program as succinctly as possible both to journalists who continue to disseminate the…
Joe Meli, who faced several charges related to an alleged Ponzi scheme involving duping investors by telling them they could get in on purchase and resale of red-hot “Hamilton” tickets,…
News broke over the weekend that Metallica’s planned crackdown against ticket resale for upcoming gigs in the United Kingdom is going to be scrapped. Apparently the band’s own concert promoter…
The Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic organizing committee has announced plans to counter ticket scalping ahead of the event, Reuters reported this week. The committee is especially fearful of massive…
With popularity and ticket-buying difficulty that rivals the likes of Hamilton, the first ever on-stage Harry Potter production, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, has already announced it will head…
In most instances, when someone purchases a block of tickets to the red-hot show “Hamilton” for $100,000, then re-sells them for three times that amount, they’re called a “scalper” or…
Following their announcement of intent to change ticket resale laws, New South Wales has become the first state in Australia to outlaw the use of ticket bots, among other legislation…
Following in the footsteps of their east coast counterpart, the British Columbia government has announced they will look into reforming legislation around event ticket sales after a Pink show in…
To their credit, the Cleveland Indians organization was very clear that they would be going above and beyond this fall to protect their exclusive partnership with StubHub for ticket resale….
Some budding entrepreneurs at the University of Michigan are apparently making some extra cash in a new market using an old technique: Using supply vs. demand to turn ticket-buying opportunities…