NY Clamps Down On Ticket Brokers

Stubhub and Ticketmaster have been approached by New York’s Attorney General to combat “high volume” ticket resellers who are snatching up tickets.

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NY AG Eric Schneiderman asked the ticket vendors to take stronger measures to prevent automated “bots” and hired foreign workers from snapping up tickets immediately upon their onsale, CNN reports. A document from the AG’s office said one bot purchased 15,000 tickets to a U2 concert in a single day in 2015 and that current circumstances make it nearly impossible for the average fan to get tickets to major events without paying a third party’s exorbitant markup.

Schneiderman recently got six ticket brokers to agree to $2.7 billion in fines for reselling tickets without licenses and using bots to “rig” the market, CNN reports.

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