Ticket brokers are using illegal software called “bots” to buy hundreds of thousands of event tickets and resell them at higher prices, according to a Jan. 28 report by the New York State Attorney General.
An investigation into the concert- and sports-ticket industry found that third-party brokers using bots mark up ticket prices by 49 percent on average—and sometimes by more than 1,000 percent—on sites such as StubHub.com, the report said.
Specific investigations and enforcement actions are in process, according to the report.
“Ticketing is a fixed game,” Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said in a statement. “My office will continue ...
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