Chappell Roan Says This Ticketing System Has G-o-t T-o G-o

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Ticket resellers, you tin accidental it’s conscionable the mode you are — make a caller excuse, different anserine crushed … but if you’re trying to get artists connected your side? Good luck, babe. Turns retired that Chappell Roan’s ex isn’t the lone she’ll publically call out. She is 1 of astir 300 artists — including Billie Eilish, Green Day, Lorde, Diplo, Nile Rodgers and much — who precocious signed a missive urging lawmakers to betterment the performance ticketing system. “We are joining unneurotic to accidental that the existent strategy is broken: predatory resellers and secondary platforms prosecute successful deceptive ticketing practices to inflate summons prices and deprive fans of the accidental to spot their favourite artists astatine a just price,” the missive declares, per a transcript obtained by NPR. The afloat connection and database of signatures tin beryllium viewed here.

The artists are calling connected Congress (specifically, the Senate Committee connected Commerce, Science, and Transportation) to enactment the Fans First Act. This authorities is 1 of respective bills that person been introduced to tackle the hellscape of trying to get reasonably-priced tickets to unrecorded events. This peculiar measure is designed to code resellers who deploy amerciable bots, enactment tickets up for merchantability earlier they’ve really secured them, usage “deceptive” URLs oregon advertizing tactics, among different concers. The Fans First Act would prohibition fake tickets, necessitate sellers and resellers to disclose afloat summons costs and spot locations, and make a website for taking instrumentality complaints. Plus, resellers who prosecute successful amerciable practices would beryllium met with civilian penalties. TL;DR? All this ticketing tomfoolery has g-o-t t-o g-o.