Ticketmaster taken to court over Taylor Swift ticketing debacle
Ticketmaster is in hot water. More than two dozen fans across 13 states are suing the company for the Taylor Swift ticketing debacle.
The lawsuit has been submitted in the Los Angeles County District Court in California. Los Angeles is the home of Ticketmaster’s parent company, Live Nation.
Tickets to see Taylor Swift perform during the U.S. leg of her ‘Eras’ tour sold so quickly, most fans didn’t even get a chance to buy them.
At the time, the agency cited “extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory”.
This demand actually saw Ticketmaster’s website crash completely, leaving millions of Swifties furious.
Now, prices on the black market have skyrocketed.
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The lawsuit alleges Ticketmaster violated the California Cartwright Act and the California Unfair Competition Law during its presale to so-called “verified” fans.
The 26 individuals say Live Nation is guilty of fraud, price fixing, and antitrust violations as well as “intentional misrepresentation”.
It reads, “millions of fans waited up to eight hours and were unable to purchase tickets”, while scalpers and bots had access to the presale.
Ticketmaster is yet to respond to the lawsuit.
At the time of the ticket sales, Swift herself delivered a scathing review of the company.
The pop star said, “I’m not going to make excuses for anyone because we asked them, multiple times, if they could handle this kind of demand and we were assured they could”.
