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General admission tickets for AFL Aussie rules football games are set to rise for the first time in five years when the 2019 season kicks off next month. Whilst clubs will be permitted to retain a ...
Tags: AFL, Aussie Rules, australian football league, Dynamic Ticketing, Sunday FundayAndrew Parsons, Ticketmaster UK’s managing director, has spoken out about the firm’s new exchange platform and its move to close its resale sites Seatwave and GetMeIn! Late last year, Ticketmas...
Tags: Andrew Parsons, Exchange, Resale, Ticketmaster ukMartin Tirrell, a former sports talk radio show host in Iowa, has been indicted after allegedly defrauding investors in a ticket resale scheme. According to the Des Moines Register newspaper, Tirre...
Tags: Fraud, Iowa, Legal, Radio Host, Resale, TirrellEventbrite is expanding its presence in Spain by establishing its first European development centre in Madrid. The San-Francisco-based company acquired Spanish online ticketing company Ti...
Tags: Engineers, Eventbrite, Madrid, Spain, TicketeaMelbourne International Comedy Festival has been given major event status, giving the event an increased protection against scalping. Under Victorian law, sporting competitions and festivals labell...
Tags: Comedy, Legal, Major Event, Melbourne Comedy Festival, Scalpers, ToutsTicketmaster has been accused of a “bait and switch” move by a Rolling Stones fan that saw his ticket prices shoot up by C$60 more than they were listed for. After Edward Mair added the C$119.5...
Tags: Canada, Drip Pricing, Fees, pricing, Rolling Stones, TicketmasterBilly McFarland, the founder of the ill-fated Fyre Festival, has been ordered to pay back $3m (£2.3m/€2.6m) to an investor who sponsored the 2017 event. A New York County judge ruled in favour o...
Tags: Bahamas, Billy McFarland, Festivals, Fyre Festival, Ja RuleTickets to Mars could eventually cost less than $500,000 (£391,400/€443,500), according to Elon Musk, the billionaire founder of private space firm SpaceX. He said that the journey would become ...
Tags: Elon Musk, Mars, Space Travel, SpaceXStubHub has linked up with the NFL Players Association for the second year in a row to support career growth after competition. The 2019 NFLPA Externship program pairs 63 athletes with 24 organis...
Tags: jobs, NFL, NFLPA, Players Association, StubHubRoberto De Luca, president of the Italian division of Live Nation, and D’Alessandro e Galli chief executive Mimmo D’Alessandro have expressed satisfaction at a court ruling acquitting them of all ...
Tags: Court, D’Alessandro e Galli, Live Nation Italia, Secondary Ticketing, Viagogo, Vivo ConcertiWest Bromwich Albion has warned that it will issue three-year bans to those that attempt to “cheat the system” with incorrect concessionary tickets. The Championship club led an initiative to...
Tags: Championship, early-bird, Premier League, The Hawthorns, West Brom, West Bromwich Albion
