Ticketmaster Customers, Get Ready For Your (Tiny) Class-Action Payout

An anonymous reader writes "If you used Ticketmaster's website to buy tickets between October 21, 1999 and October 19, 2011, you're in for a windfall. Well, a $1.50 per ticket order windfall. Because of a proposed class action settlement, Ticketmaster is being forced to credit $1.50 per ticket order (up to 17 orders) to customers because they profited from 'processing fees' without declaring as much. And despite the reparations, Ticketmaster can continue to profit off transactions — they just have to say they're doing so on their website."

Comments

Finally, not a scam

[Anonymous Coward]

Got this mail today. I was about to delete the mail as another spamscam that got through but the text looked like too much hardwork to have gone in for a phishing attempt or a "Nigerian scam". I lived in the USA 10 years ago and may have purchased something from Ticketmaster.

Re:Finally, not a scam

[Anonymous Coward]

How many years were the lawyers working, and how much would they have received if they had failed? I see this complaint with every class action, and there is SOME merit to it, but people act like the lawyers should do all their work pro-bono.

No, they shouldn't work pro-bono. But to be fair and consistent with the compensation they worked out for the people actually wronged by this action, the lawyers should have received their millions in the form of a bunch of $1.50 ticketmaster credit vouchers.

Re:I live in a world...

[jamesh]

I just checked a recent ticket and it does indeed declare that charge correctly now. The 4 items mentioned are:

1. Cost of performance
2. Cost of venue
3. <illegible smudge>
4. Profit!

I got my money from the eBay lawsuit!

[cvtan]

There was a recent class action settlement against eBay which I accidentally was a part of. I received a check for $1.63. $1.63!! You Ticketmaster users only got $1.50. Eat my dust!