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FTC to Host Workshop for Online Ticket Market

The FTC will host a public workshop March 27 on consumer protection and competition for the online event-ticket market, it announced Thursday. The agency is accepting comments through Dec. 5. Commissioner Rebecca Kelly Slaughter will keynote the event, to focus…

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on transparency, lack of ticket availability, ticket bots and the Better Online Ticket Sales Act. It will include discussion of the resale market with respect to disclosure of pricing, fees, speculative tickets and “consumer confusion regarding search engine advertisements and websites of resellers versus official primary ticket sellers.”