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Metallica has a US$7,000 ticket for their 2023 tour

December 1, 2022December 1, 2022 Alan Cross 2 Comments 72 Seaons, Metallica, Tickets, VIP

Every tour has tiered levels of tickets from seats in the nosebleed section to passes with special VIP options. As

Ticketmaster, AEG will start offering refund options next month

April 18, 2020April 18, 2020 Amber Healy 0 Comments AEG, concert cancellations, Concert Tickets, Concerts, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Live Nation, StubHub, Ticketmaster, Tickets, Vivid Seats

Goliath blinked. All this week, concertgoers have been up in arms about Ticketmaster’s seeming change in policy, which sounded a

VividSeats weighs in on refunds, cancellations and helping musicians

April 16, 2020April 16, 2020 Amber Healy 3 Comments cancellations, Concert Tickets, Coronavirus, Covid, COVID-19, Eventbrite, MusiCounts, Refunds, StubHub, Ticketmaster, Tickets, Vivid Seats

Another ticket seller is speaking out about how it intends to address canceled and indefinitely postponed events during the coronavirus

UPDATE: Ticketmaster, StubHub, Eventbrite have all changed their refund policies. But not all the changes are the same.

April 15, 2020April 17, 2020 Amber Healy 3 Comments cancellations, Concerts, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Eventbrite, Refunds, StubHub, Ticketmaster, Tickets

It’s bad enough we don’t have any shows to go to now. It’s worse that we might not have shows

Twickets wants to make ticket reselling ethical

January 21, 2019January 20, 2019 Amber Healy 0 Comments Adele, Arctic Monkeys, Bryan Ferry, Ed Sheeran, Eric Church, George Ezra, Newport Folk Festival, Noel Gallagher, PIxies, Queen, Spice Girls, The 1975, Ticket bots, Ticketmaster, Tickets, Twickets

What do Eric Church, The 1975, Muse, Queen, Ed Sheeran and Bryan Ferry have in common? Or Mumford & Sons,

Yet another wrinkle in whole controversy around the secondary ticket market

March 29, 2018 Alan Cross 1 Comment Blue Jays, Secondary Ticket Market, StubHub, Tickets

There’s a CBC report today on how the Toronto Blue Jays are scalping their own tickets. The report says that

Ireland to ban reselling tickets for more than face value

March 7, 2018March 6, 2018 Amber Healy 0 Comments face value, Ireland, Resellers, Secondary Market, Ticket Touts, Tickets, U2

The Irish government is considering making it a crime to resell tickets for more than their face value. Two elected

NY Weighing Paperless Tickets

July 31, 2017July 30, 2017 Amber Healy 0 Comments Bots, Cuomo, NATB, paperless, Ticket Resellers, Ticketmaster, Tickets

If you want a fully paperless ticket in New York State, you might be in luck. Right now, it’s the

New Law In Conn. Requires Paper Option for E-Tickets

June 8, 2017June 8, 2017 Amber Healy 0 Comments Connecticut, Live Nation, Resellers, Ticketmaster, Tickets, Virginia

Paper tickets will be a required option for anyone buying an e-ticket in Connecticut according to a new law signed

Feeling Like A Festival Freak? Hit Up All Of Live Nation’s Concerts With A Festival Passport

May 21, 2017May 21, 2017 Mathew Kahansky 0 Comments Austin City Limits, Bonnaroo, Cheap, Concert, Festival, Leeds, Live Nation, Lollapalooza, Passport, Reading, Shows, Summer, Tickets

This is just about the best ticket deal to date. For a one-time price of $800, you can be the

Pemberton Music Festival Files For Bankruptcy. No Refunds, Apparently.

May 20, 2017May 20, 2017 Mathew Kahansky 0 Comments Bankrupt, Cancelled, Festival, Pemberton, Refunds, Schedule, Tickets

Oh gosh, now another festival has a mess on their hands. BC’s Pemberton Music Festival filed for bankruptcy earlier this

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