The Cure Cancelled All Scalped Tickets For Their Upcoming NA Tour, Money Donated

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Robert Smith’s efforts to go after scalpers have resulted in the cancelation of 7,000 tickets to The Cure’s upcoming North American tour.

As a result, according to Smith, “Approx 7k tickets across approx 2200 orders have been cancelled. These are tickets acquired with fake accounts / listed on secondary resale sites.”

Smith also warned ticket buyers from attempting to circumvent ticket transfer rules. “OFFERING TO SELL/SEND ACCOUNT LOGIN DETAILS TO GET AROUND TM TRANSFER LIMITATIONS… ANY/ALL TICKETS OBTAINED IN THIS WAY WILL BE CANCELED, AND ORIGINAL FEES PAID ON THOSE TICKETS WILL NOT BE REFUNDED,” Smith announced. “..ORIGINAL FEES PAID ON THOSE TICKETS WILL BE DONATED TO AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL, AND THE TICKETS THEMSELVES WILL BE RESOLD TO FANS.”

Smith also successfully lobbied Ticketmaster to provide partial refunds to exisiting ticket holders after he determined that they had been charged “unduly high” transaction fees.

The Cure’s first North American tour in seven years commences in May, with seats available via Ticketmaster.

 

https://consequence.net/2023/03/robert-smith-the-cure-scalped-tickets/amp/

 

 

 

 

 

That's brave.

More artists need to do the same. The more doing it might help to discourage scalping cos all these scalpers will only lose money aka not profitable business for them anymore 

 

[Chromatography 10,186]

omfg. we must stan 

it would’ve been awesome if taylor did something similar but i feel like the scale between these two aren’t even comparable 

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I love the sentiment but if they're not increasing the price they paid I don't see why they should be punished, some things pop up in life. If they're only going after the big price jumps then slay

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It's really not hard for ticket sellers, especially the larger ones (*cough*Ticketmaster*cough*) that have more resources, to audit this situation. Just flag accounts that buy tickets and immediately try to resell them. It shouldn't be hard for them to monitor that if they're reselling on the site they bought it from and for the original vendor to know where those tickets are being directed to