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| Live Nation Entertainment Netherlands Cancels Over 1000 Secondary Tickets |
 In an announcement today,
Live Nation Entertainment Netherlands Cancelled over 1000 tickets it
deemed invalid due to purchase by 'touts'.
They claim that the tickets they have canceled for the two concerts, the Editors (May 1) and Mika (May 7) were bought by several companies in the Dutch secondary ticketing industry for the purpose resale and this violates their terms and conditions. Live Nation Entertainment Netherlands is reselling the tickets and they have been made available on their site. The list of numbers of the canceled tickets is available at the following page online. Live Nation Entertainment Netherlands is advising clients of these companies to demand the money back directly. The canceled tickets were allegedly from 12 Dutch companies (24hourtickets.nl, 4alltickets.nl, Easytickets.eu, ltaticketservice.nl, Pepetickets.nl, QQ-tickets.nl, Ticketunlimited.nl, Ticketforsale.nl, Tickets123.nl, Ticketsnederland.nl, Tickets4u.nl, Worldwideticketshop.nl). Mojo Concerts is owned by Live Nation Entertainment, based in Los Angeles which also owns a online secondary ticket marketplace at GETMEIN!. No tickets being resold for the aforementioned concerts have been canceled on any of the UK-based secondary ticketing sites, Viagogo or Seatwave - only in the Netherlands. Face value price of the Mika tickets are €42,90 (£38.60) and are being sold for up to €71.50 (£64.37) on Live Nation's own secondary platform at GETMEIN! - the most expensive in the UK Secondary Ticket Market. Seatwave
is selling Mika tickets for the same Dutch concerts at up to €67.10
(£60.43) and at Viagogo
for up to €61.74 (£55.61) Viagogo is pitching some Editors tickets for over €100.00 (£90.25), Seatwave has high end Editors tickets for up to €150.00 (£135.29)
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by Richard Kastelein
OP/ED - "The seller defines the price at Ticket Trade, not Mojo Concerts," states the site. I guess that's why two tickets to Rammstein cost over €600 euro on Mojo Concerts aka Live Nation's 'Black Market', secondary ticketing site at Tickettrade. The hypocrisy of a...
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