Canada Fans Win Tender

By eliminating ticket bots and mass-buying software new ticket buying laws will provide more consumer protections and fairer processes for people for when they buy tickets for events online or at the ticket booth. These changes are going to make our live-event industry in B.C. even better for the people who matter most the fans said Mike Farnworth Minister of Public Safety and Solicitor General. The new laws will make the ticket buying process more transparent and equitable for consumers so that everyone in our province will have a fair chance of getting tickets for their favourite acts and events.The ticket sales act would prohibit ticket buying softwarebots that unfairly buy large quantities of live event tickets for resale at inflated prices before people can purchase them at face value. The proposed changes will also regulate how tickets to live cultural recreational and sporting events are bought and sold in B.C. something that was previously regulated only by general consumer-protection laws.For too long artists and concert goers were being unfairly hurt by ticket buying software and bots said Lisa Beare Minister of Tourism Arts and Culture. This new ticket buying legislation will ensure that people are protected with better price transparency. Most of all people will be able to enjoy the diverse performances and entertainment B.C. has to offer without being unfairly gouged at the box office.The ticket sales act if passed will require clear and prominent disclosure of pricesrefund guarantees by secondary sellers and secondary ticketing platform operators disclosure of key terms and conditions by primary and secondary sellers ticket resellers to disclose they are secondary sellers prohibition of the sale of speculative tickets that the seller does not possess or control and the ability for civil action to be taken by consumers or ticket selling businesses if they feel they have suffered losses as the result of a contravention of the legislation.