A new breakthrough in the whole Ticketmaster reselling-tickets-with-too-high-of-a markup case: New York Senator Chuck Schumer has come to the rescue with legislation aimed at regulating the secondary-ticket market (the culprit of ticket-markup). Basically the legislation requests a two-day waiting period from the time the tickets are available to us, the public, to the time when greedy resellers like TicketsNow will increase ticket prices with bogus additional fees.
After the Springsteen incident, there has been a great demand for said legislation, and surprisingly, Ticketmaster, owner of TicketsNow, supports this legislation. Coincidentally, or maybe not, Schumer was on the Senate committee that oversaw the Ticketmaster and Live Nations' merger -- basically, the players in this game are more than familiar with each other. Either way, anything to get the ball rolling on the whole ticket sitch works for me.
-Erica Schwartz
Currently listening to "Two of Us" by the Beatles
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