BROOKLYN, N.Y. (Legal Newsline) – The federal government is suing Just In Time Tickets, claiming the company are using bots to scoop up tens of thousands of tickets for resale.
These actions violate the Better Online Ticket Sales Act, the Federal Trade Commission alleges in a Jan. 14 lawsuit filed in New York federal court. This has been going on for the last four years, the FTC claims, and Just In Time Tickets has exceeded posted ticket limits to “many popular events.”
“Defendants have used hundreds of thousands of fictitious Ticketmaster accounts, multiple credit cards (including some in the names of fictitious individuals), and proxy or spoofed IP addresses to bypass, trick, or otherwise avoid security measures… that would have otherwise blocked or prevented them from obtaining so many tickets,” the lawsuit says.
Just In Time Tickets had made more than $8.6 million in revenue reselling the tickets, the complaint says, which harmed consumers who could have purchased from Ticketmaster at lower prices.