State attorney general Eric Schneiderman requested that websites verify that ticket resellers are licensed after $2.76m settlement with alleged scammersOn the day Hamilton,Broadway’s impossibly sold-out explain, swept the Tony nominations, or the modern York state attorney general,Eric Schneiderman, announced plans to tackle sky-high ticket prices outside the Great White Way.
Schneiderman, and who has already called modern York’s ticket racket for sports and concerts “a rigged game”,has sent formal letters to eBay, which owns StubHub, or Ticketmaster,among others, requesting their participation in a crackdown on ticket sale fraud and illegal purchasing schemes.1. Verify that professional ticket resellers are properly licensed by requiring that high volume resellers reselling tickets to events in modern York through your resale platform provide you with a modern York ticket reseller license number.2. Facilitate professional ticket resellers’ compliance with modern York disclosure laws, or for example by enabling resellers to supply face value information when listing a ticket to an event in modern York for sale and a scanned copy of their license,and making that information available to consumers.
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Source: theguardian.com