A bill to expand consumer protections in ticket sales passed its first vote Wednesday.
would require event operators and ticket resellers to provide full refunds to customers who buy tickets for events that are later canceled. Customers would also get refunds if a ticket is counterfeit, not as advertised or does not grant the customer entrance to the event through no fault of their own.
Much of the ticket-selling industry has turned upside down in recent years, with prices climbing astronomically high as resellers buy out events and average fans are forced to buy tickets secondhand, sometimes receiving fake or duplicate tickets. This has led to incidents like hundreds of, which would have made many of the same changes as House Bill 1378, as well as banning speculative ticketing .in June, even after it secured support from 76 out of 100 lawmakers.
"We worked in good faith with folks on all sides of this issue," Lindstedt says."I think these are things that everyone can agree on to make buying tickets in this state just a little bit better for consumers."
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