Ticketmaster wants you to know it’s “all in” on up-front pricing. In a blog post published on Monday, the company triumphantly declared that it’s “putting fans first” and including fees in the first price you see for a ticket. Not mentioned in Ticketmaster’s announcement: An FTC rule requiring that exact change just so happened to take effect today.
The FTC’s bipartisan junk fees rule was finalized in December. It requires live event ticket vendors, hotels and rentals to “tell consumers the whole truth up front
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