Drake fans are the latest to hit Ticketmaster with a lawsuit following ‘It’s All A Blur’ tour sale
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A Canadian law firm has filed a class action lawsuit against Ticketmaster on behalf of all those who bought “official platinum” seats.
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The company claims Ticketmaster “deliberately misleads consumers for their own financial gain,” reports the Toronto Star.
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Ticketmaster has recently come under scrutiny from fans, musicians and the US government.
Tickets to Canadian rapper Drake’s It’s All a Blur tour, his first in four years, caused a stir online as fans rushed to secure seats during the general public release last Friday.
Now a Montreal law firm is filing a class-action lawsuit against ticket seller Ticketmaster, alleging that the platform “deliberately misleads consumers for its own financial gain,” according to the Toronto Star.
Law firm LPC Avocat Inc. says a local bought two “Official Platinum” seats for about $790 each for the July 14 show at the Bell Center in Montreal. The next day, a second show was added at the same venue on July 15, and tickets for the same seats went on sale for almost $400 less, culture magazine Fader reported.
The company argues that Ticketmaster’s move was intentional and is seeking “damages equal to the difference between the prices of ‘Official Platinum’ tickets and what their regular price should have been” and $300 per customer as punitive damages .
The company’s class action motion is subject to approval by the Quebec Superior Court.
“Ticketmaster will unilaterally determine which tickets will be promoted and sold as ‘official platinum’ based on a particular event,” the class action complaint reads, according to the Toronto Star.
It continued, “The result is that most, if not all, of the tickets advertised and sold as ‘official platinum’ are neither ‘Premium tickets‘ still ‘Some of the best seats in the house‘ and are in fact just regular tickets maliciously sold by Ticketmaster at an artificially inflated price.”
Fans of the rapper “God’s Plan” took to social media to complain and joke about the soaring prices following the release of the much-coveted tickets. While most stuck with memes, some called Ticketmaster about costly fees.
Just days before the outrage from Drake fans, Ticketmaster announced it would be refunding those who bought tickets to see rock band The Cure after lead singer Robert Smith said he was “off” from the ticketing platform’s fees disgusted”.
The site is already under scrutiny from the public and a Justice Department probe following a ticketing collapse during the sale of Taylor Swift’s Eras tour tickets.
Some Swift fans also hit Ticketmaster with a class-action lawsuit over the messy launch that resulted in some Swifties being unable to purchase tickets.
Ticketmaster did not immediately respond to Insider’s request for comment.
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