{"id":1087162,"date":"2022-12-18T20:39:09","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T01:39:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1087162"},"modified":"2022-12-18T20:39:09","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T01:39:09","slug":"ticketmaster-faces-antitrust-scrutiny-in-mexico-following-bad-bunny-ticket-sales-fiasco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/?p=1087162","title":{"rendered":"Ticketmaster faces antitrust scrutiny in Mexico following Bad Bunny ticket sales fiasco"},"content":{"rendered":"

The head of Profeco, Mexico\u2019s consumer protection watchdog, has promised to sue Ticketmaster following a ticketing snafu in the country\u2019s capital, reports The New York Times<\/ins><\/em><\/a>. On the weekend of December 9th, Puerto Rican reggaeton star Bad Bunny was scheduled to play two soldout shows in Mexico City\u2019s Estadio Azteca, the largest stadium in Latin America. The Friday night date saw thousands of fans denied entry to the venue after they were told by Estadio Azteca staff the tickets they bought directly from Ticketmaster were fake.<\/p>\n

Profeco accused the company of overselling tickets. According to the agency, more than 1,600 ticket holders were denied entry on the first night, and another 110 on the following evening. \u201cTicketmaster claimed they were counterfeit, but they were all issued by them,\u201d Profeco head Ricardo Sheffield told local news outlets<\/a>. Ticketmaster has agreed to refund all affected fans the full price of their ticket, plus a 20 percent compensation fee. Profeco is preparing to file a class-action lawsuit against the company. Ticketmaster Mexico could also be fined up to 10 percent of its total sales in 2021. \u201cAs we are a fiscal authority, if they don\u2019t want to pay of their own will, we will seize their accounts then, and they will pay because they have to,\u201d Sheffield said.<\/p>\n

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\ud83d\udccdSi compraste boletos para el concierto de #BadBunny<\/a> el pasado 9 y 10 de diciembre en el #EstadioAzteca<\/a>, y te negaron el acceso. <\/p>\n

Ingresa a \ud83d\udd17https:\/\/t.co\/VIrQmLsrL9<\/a> y comienza tu proceso de reclamaci\u00f3n de reembolso total + bonificaci\u00f3n no menor al 20% del precio pagado. pic.twitter.com\/hs3TUa3J64<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Profeco (@Profeco) December 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

In a statement<\/ins><\/a> Ticketmaster posted to Twitter this week, the company denied the claim it oversold tickets. It blamed the event on demand for Bad Bunny tickets \u2013 saying more than 4.5 million people tried to purchase just 120,000 stubs \u2013 and scalpers who sold fake tickets. \u201cOn Friday, an unprecedented number of false tickets, not bought through our official channels, were presented at the gates,” the company said, according to an Associated Press translation<\/ins><\/a>. \u201cThe situation, in addition to confusion among access control personnel, caused temporary interruptions in the ticket reading system, which unfortunately momentarily impeded recognition of legitimate tickets.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Informaci\u00f3n importante con respecto al concierto de @sanbenito<\/a> (#BadBunny<\/a>) en el @EstadioAzteca<\/a> \ud83d\udc47 pic.twitter.com\/LCmp5L1fvo<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Ticketmaster M\u00e9xico (@Ticketmaster_Me) December 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

In November, Democratic lawmakers, including House Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, began calling for the break up of Ticketmaster after the company botched sales of Taylor Swift Eras Tour tickets. \u201cDaily reminder that Ticketmaster is a monopoly, its merger with LiveNation should never have been approved, and they need to be reigned in,\u201d Ocasio-Cortez said<\/ins><\/a> last month. The US Department of Justice reportedly opened<\/ins><\/a> an antitrust investigation into Ticketmaster parent company LiveNation before the Swift fiasco. The Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Competition Policy, Antitrust and Consumers recently announced<\/ins><\/a> it would hold a hearing on the company\u2019s recent failures.\u00a0<\/p>\n


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\nSource: Engadget – Ticketmaster faces antitrust scrutiny in Mexico following Bad Bunny ticket sales fiasco<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The head of Profeco, Mexico\u2019s consumer protection watchdog, has promised to sue Ticketmaster following a ticketing snafu in the country\u2019s capital, reports The New York Times. On the weekend of December 9th, Puerto Rican reggaeton star Bad Bunny was scheduled … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99,110],"tags":[98],"class_list":["post-1087162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-engadget","category-unfiltered-rss","tag-engadget"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1087162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1087162\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1087162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1087162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.prime-wow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1087162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}