www.ticketnews.com: In a stunning shift, Ontario legislators removed a key consumer protection measure from its updates to ticketing laws in the Canadian province. According to The Globe and Mail, Liberal leadership in the province plans to introduce an amendment to remove a transparency provision that would remove requirements for ticket sellers to disclose the total number of tickets available to the public for a given event at least seven days before they went on sale.
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Ahh yes, the age old screw the consumer move. Coming from up north though is shocking as they usually are more concerned with consumer protections than the U.S. currently has. It is however no surprise that the chief protester of the legislation are the big name ticket agents who are trying to protect their profit and bottom line. I can understand wanting to make a profit and protect the bottom line as a matter of business but let’s face it, it doesn’t go over well when it directly impacts the consumer and it’s clear to see that companies like ticket master Canada don’t really care about the consumer here. It also is telling just how much a band or artist cares about it’s fans if they are fighting to be able to sell blocks of tickets at a higher premium for themselves. So much for caring about the fans that helped make you famous.
Wow that's some really messed up stuff. The lack of care here for the consumer from the government and ticket companies for their consumers is astonishing. This legislation would have helped so much to protect the consumer and their ticket prices. As things are becoming more and more exclusive to get into the ideas that ticket companies can change and fluctuate how many tickets are presented at an event without anyone actually knowing this allows them to change the supply so that the demand goes up and resale companies will have greater control over their market as consumers no longer know how many tickets are available creating a mad dash. I hope there is at least some semblance of respect from some of these companies that they still keep the amount of tickets available when they post tickets just to prove me wrong and show some good old fashion class.
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