New York passed one of the more consumer-friendly sets of ticket legislation in the United States in years over the summer, when the state declared that all ticket sellers must provide their fees up-front rather than hide them at the end of a purchase. The state also declared that resellers have to disclose the tickets’ original face value when customers buy on the secondary market instead of from the original seller. But in the two months since the law went into effect, many of the biggest ticket marketplaces in the live industry aren’t following the new law, a state senator influential in its passing says.
Rolling Stone went through the purchasing processes across Ticketmaster, AXS, StubHub, Vivid Seats and SeatGeek, finding that most of the ticketing companies at minimum employ policies that don’t reflect the spirit of what the lawmakers intended and at worst may have defied some of the new statutes.
James Skoufis, a New York state senator who was active in authoring the new legislation, says he’s been in contact with the New York Attorney General’s office in recent weeks to further raise the need to enforce the law.
“There is a lot of non-compliance there, no question about it,” Skoufis says. “There is no gray area here, it’s black and white. I think [the ticket services] are testing the boundaries of what they can get away with. The statute doesn’t provide for leeway. Either you’re showing all-in prices, or you’re disclosing the face-value prices, or you’re not.”
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