Scalping
19-year-old Perth woman Hannah Valentine has been convicted of 53 separate fraud offences, but avoided having to serve any jail time. As reported by ABC, Valentine plead guilty to offenses related to selling fake concert tickets and using stolen credit cards, making around $10,000 in profit off the scam. After pleading guilty at a previous court […]
Controversial Swiss-based ticketing website Viagogo has responded to an ongoing campaign to have the company banned from Australia, which has received backing from the likes of rock outfit Gang Of Youths, Laneway Festival and singer-songwriters Tash Sultana and Amy Shark. The industry campaign, which is part of a larger Labor Party campaign to have Viagogo […]
Ticketmaster has denied reports it engaged in collusion with ticket scalpers, after an investigation by CBC News and the Toronto Star found the company had allegedly partnered with ticket resellers in order to double-dip on ticket resale fees. According to the publications’ joint investigative report, Ticketmaster representatives were found to have allowed scalpers to explicitly […]
In an explosive plot twist of M. Night Shayamalan proportions, it turns out Ticketmaster may have been secretly working with scalpers to rip us off this whole time! Damning reports from Canada’s CBC News and Toronto Star allege that Ticketmaster has been operating its own covert scalping racket. Both Canadian outlets sent undercover journalists to the Ticket Summit industry conference in Las […]
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