It's amazing how long this ticketing scam has continued, and so blatantly. Everyone knows it's a scam!
They even managed to make settling a class-action lawsuit into a huge fucking scam. It's infuriating. I feel like they should be sued for the way they settled the lawsuit.
What do you mean ticketing scam? Scalping? If so, I'm confused on how you might stop it without allowing people who can't go last minute to resell their ticket. This feels like a damned if you do, damned if you don't situations.
Also which class action lawsuit are you talking about
This is a professional reseller program. It's not about individuals reselling tickets last minute. This is specifically about squeezing more money out of average customers using scalping methods.
Sorry for being vague about the lawsuit/settlement, it's just enraging that ticketmaster has been so shitty for so long... yet my options are still generally:
1. use ticketmaster
2. don't get tickets
The settlement was: http://settlement.livenation.com/ — in which Ticketmaster ended up giving tons of borderline _unusable_ vouchers to customers in settlement (the lawsuit was over fees and took a decade to reach settlement).
You have to sit and watch their site for specific availability to generally lower-tiered events and hope you're fast enough to actually get the available slots (you're competing against millions of people who also have vouchers).
Hey at least I could use the IOMega voucher, I used to go to a lot of shows so I have like 50 worthless Ticketmaster vouchers from the lawsuit. Sometimes I get like $2 off a ticket, but the vast majority of them will go unused.
They even managed to make settling a class-action lawsuit into a huge fucking scam. It's infuriating. I feel like they should be sued for the way they settled the lawsuit.