

End Scalping and resale of tickets


End Scalping and resale of tickets
The Issue
Tired of feeling fleeced every time you go to a U2 concert or other show? This is the downside of technology when fans cannot get a ticket to a show for its face value. As Rolling Stone Magazing states, "TM+, easier to use than the cumbersome TicketsNow, is optional. Scalping opponents such as Springsteen and Pearl Jam can turn it off, or choose paperless ticketing, which forces fans to show ID at the door with tickets" (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/inside-ticketmasters-new-scalping-plan-20130913 So U2 had a choice on whether tickets could be resold on Ticketmaster or not and they allowed for resales. Moreover, Ticketmaster's Credit Card Access feature is a false protection against SCALPERS because scalpers can use prepaid credit cards and then ship the card to the buyer. All over eBay and Stubhub (an eBay subsidiary) ticket sellers state that they will ship the tickets on a "gift card" or "Prepaid credit card.) Bands like U2 have 100s of millions of dollars that can buy much influence with respect to this issue of their fans getting ripped off. People like Bono walk around talking about morality and social justice and yet it doesn't seem to matter for their own fans. There's a word for that...Hypocrisy and it needs to end. Please make a stand against this unethical behaviour towards entertainment consumers.

The Issue
Tired of feeling fleeced every time you go to a U2 concert or other show? This is the downside of technology when fans cannot get a ticket to a show for its face value. As Rolling Stone Magazing states, "TM+, easier to use than the cumbersome TicketsNow, is optional. Scalping opponents such as Springsteen and Pearl Jam can turn it off, or choose paperless ticketing, which forces fans to show ID at the door with tickets" (http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/inside-ticketmasters-new-scalping-plan-20130913 So U2 had a choice on whether tickets could be resold on Ticketmaster or not and they allowed for resales. Moreover, Ticketmaster's Credit Card Access feature is a false protection against SCALPERS because scalpers can use prepaid credit cards and then ship the card to the buyer. All over eBay and Stubhub (an eBay subsidiary) ticket sellers state that they will ship the tickets on a "gift card" or "Prepaid credit card.) Bands like U2 have 100s of millions of dollars that can buy much influence with respect to this issue of their fans getting ripped off. People like Bono walk around talking about morality and social justice and yet it doesn't seem to matter for their own fans. There's a word for that...Hypocrisy and it needs to end. Please make a stand against this unethical behaviour towards entertainment consumers.

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Petition created on 18 January 2017

