Posted on 11/18/2022 9:30:11 AM PST by ButThreeLeftsDo
MINNEAPOLIS -- Sen. Amy Klobuchar said Thursday she would call a Senate hearing to probe Ticketmaster after the Taylor Swift ticket fiasco this week left many fans frustrated and empty handed.
This comes as the company canceled the general public sale of tickets originally scheduled for Friday "due to extraordinarily high demands on ticketing systems and insufficient remaining ticket inventory to meet that demand." Swift fans sought tickets earlier this week with pre-sale codes and credit card exclusives, a rollout that was beset by technical problems.
Klobuchar, who chairs a Senate subcommittee focused on consumer protection and anti-trust, said she also wants the U.S. Department of Justice to investigate. She already sent a letter to CEO of Ticketmaster expressing "serious concerns about the state of competition in the ticketing industry and its harmful impact on consumers," and seeking answers to direct questions about its operations.
She believes the company, which is the product of a merger between Ticketmaster and Live Nation a decade ago, is too big and too powerful.
"There just has to be consequences for this kind of behavior," Klobuchar told WCCO. "Because unlike competitive markets, where you just go down the street if you don't like one store, you go to this store, you go to this grocery store -- you don't have that choice here."
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Always concerned about the small things.
Go make some hotdish Amy.
Tay Tay!…
Klobuchar is a DemDunce.
Ignore SBF and ties to Biden, ignore Hunter Biden and 10% for The Big Guy and focus on Ticketmaster??
And she is ignoring Schumer’s attempt to give citizenship and voting rights up to 85 million illegal immigrants in the US.
That’s weird. I thought TS was a lefty.
of all the problems in the world today this one ranks about last.
Would she call for a hearing into the biden crime family? into the mutilation of minors that is hidden from the parents? into the connection between FTX and biden, the democrat party and Ukraine? The use of the FBI to destroy a political enemy? The jailing in solitary of demonstrators?
I resolved the Ticket master problem years ago. After my wife bought $60 tickets for $300 each, I no longer go to a venue or show that doesn’t have local box office ticket sales. No digital tickets. No download to your phone tickets. Once others do the same, the scam will end.
I’m glad they are protecting us from really dangerous things like Taylor Swift FANS..............
One time I went to our local race track Thunderbird Speedway during the fair and the Ozark Mountain Daredevils were suppose to play a concert.
They didn’t show up. I want that investigated.
Didn’t Pearl Jam try to make their own ticket sales agency wayyy back in the day because they thought ticketmaster had too much of a monopoly?
I must be having memory glitches because I can’t find anything on google about it. Wonder what happened to it...
Amy does understand that Taylor Swift is on their side, right? One of them.
She’s my Senator. I’ll write her a long letter.
HOWINTHEHELL is this in any way the Senate’s business?
We need to kick Swift off of SWIFT! /sarc
Huh? So if there are more people who want tickets than tickets should the government now compel performers to do additional shows? Or is she thinking the basic laws of math should be revoked?
Oh, so so important. Democrats are not serious. Klobuchar is a low IQ ditz.
“Screws fall out all the time. The world is an imperfect place.” — John Bender
Do you know how the Roman Empire fell? The major cause was jacked up ticket prices at the Colosseum.
She eats salads with a hair comb. Who knows what she’s thinking.
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