Game, concert tickets will be harder to resell under new Mass. law
Nov 21, 2024
BOSTON (WPRI) — If you have tickets to a concert or game in Massachusetts and want to resell them, it's going to be a lot harder to do so.
Gov. Maura Healey signed a $4 billion economic development bill on Wednesday which included new rules around the resale of event tickets.
Under the new law, buyers must sell tickets on the original platform they bought them from, and are limited to who they can transfer tickets to.
Some consumer watchdog groups are against the law, arguing people should be able to do whatever they want with the tickets that they bought.
However, an executive from Ticketmaster's parent company, Live Nation, is defending the law, saying the goal is to prevent ticket scalping.
"It's about whether the professional ticket brokers and the ticket resale sites that support them can use their bots and all their other tactics to grab thousands and thousands of tickets that were meant for real fans and instead put them on resale markets where they're going to double the price," said Dan Wall, the vice president of corporate and regulatory affairs for Live Nation.
Ticket sellers will also be required to disclose ticket prices and the use of automated ticket-purchasing software is not allowed.
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