{"id":4430,"date":"2016-06-20T09:34:02","date_gmt":"2016-06-20T01:34:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/20\/stop-what-youre-doing-and-check-your-ticketmaster-account\/"},"modified":"2016-06-20T09:34:02","modified_gmt":"2016-06-20T01:34:02","slug":"stop-what-youre-doing-and-check-your-ticketmaster-account","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/20\/stop-what-youre-doing-and-check-your-ticketmaster-account\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop what you&#039;re doing and check your Ticketmaster account"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Https%3a%2f%2fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2fuploads%2fcard%2fimage%2f120472%2f75b106b3fd9f4e33ab0aa62e63ea60c5\" src=\"http:\/\/i.amz.mshcdn.com\/GUpXKlPsJbodTHjiIx1aN8zZ8o0=\/575x323\/https%3A%2F%2Fblueprint-api-production.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fcard%2Fimage%2F120472%2F75b106b3fd9f4e33ab0aa62e63ea60c5.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div style=\"float: right;width: 50px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share?via=Mashable&amp;text=Stop+what+you%27re+doing+and+check+your+Ticketmaster+account&amp;src=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F19%2Fticketmaster-lawsuit-vouchers%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-tw\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-tw-f7c0a094d16b7ee7c91a1e50839a8e00.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fmashable.com%2F2016%2F06%2F19%2Fticketmaster-lawsuit-vouchers%2F%3Futm_campaign%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial%26utm_cid%3DMash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;src=sp\" style=\"margin: 10px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Feed-fb\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/a.amz.mshcdn.com\/assets\/feed-fb-c0a21e8841794479b8086c32c6f24ba1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Live music is better when it&#8217;s free.<\/p>\n<p>A $400 million, class-action lawsuit against <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketmaster.com\/\">Ticketmaster<\/a>,\u00a0<span style=\"line-height: 1.5\"><i>Schlesinger v. Ticketmaster<\/i>, was finally settled last month.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit accuses Ticketmaster of misrepresenting its fees and overcharging customers who received tickets by mail.<\/p>\n<p>For those who bought tickets between 1999 and 2013, the settlement means they will be receiving vouchers for free and discounted tickets \u2014 which can be found in their Ticketmaster account inbox. Each code is redeemable for two tickets, so bring a friend (or a date).<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ticketfeelitigation.com\/docs\/sa.pdf\">settlement states<\/a> that its fees were &#8220;deceptive and suggested that Ticketmaster&#8217;s expedited delivery fee and order processing fee, read in the context of the description of other Ticketmaster fees that allegedly were deceptively described too, were the same as or based on expedited delivery and order processing costs.&#8221; <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/2016\/06\/19\/ticketmaster-lawsuit-vouchers\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>More about <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/conversations\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Conversations<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/entertainment\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Entertainment<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/watercooler\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Watercooler<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/category\/ticketmaster\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Ticketmaster<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/mashable.com\/music\/?utm_campaign=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial&amp;utm_cid=Mash-Prod-RSS-Feedburner-All-Partial\">Music<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/Mashable\/~4\/9XLa9wSzY8s\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Live music is better when it&#8217;s free. A $400 million, class-action lawsuit against Ticketmaster,\u00a0Schlesinger v. Ticketmaster, was finally settled last month. The lawsuit accuses Ticketmaster of misrepresenting its fees and overcharging customers who received tickets by mail. For those who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/2016\/06\/20\/stop-what-youre-doing-and-check-your-ticketmaster-account\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.utm.my\/murtadha\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}