Drake ticket prices result in class-action lawsuit against Ticketmaster

According to the Toronto Star, a Montreal law firm has filed a class-action lawsuit against Ticketmaster over allegedly upcharging fans for Drake’s upcoming ‘It’s All a Blur’ tour. Law firm LPC Avocat Inc. claim that Ticketmaster “intentionally misleads consumers over their own financial gain.”

In the complaint provided to the Toronto Star, a Montreal man purchased two “Official Platinum” seats for Drake’s concert at the Bell Centre on July 14 for $789.54 each. According to the complaint, the next day, Drake added a second show for July 15 with the same seats available for more than $350 less.

On the application for the lawsuit provided to the Star, LPC Avocat Inc. says that “Ticketmaster unilaterally decides which tickets it advertises and sells as ‘Official Platinum’ based on a given event.”

They also allege that Ticketmaster knew in advance that Drake would perform two concerts in Montreal but “concealed this information” and that “most, if not all, of the tickets advertised  and sold as ‘Official Platinum’ are neither ‘premium tickets’ nor ‘some of the best seats in the house’ and are, in fact just regular tickets sold by Ticketmaster at an artificially inflated premium in bad faith.”

If the Quebec Superior Court approves the lawsuit, plaintiffs are seeking “compensatory damages in the aggregate amount of the difference between the prices charged for the difference between the prices charged for the ‘Official Platinum’ seats.” The plaintiffs are also seeking $300 per customer in punitive damages.

The ticket giants are no strangers to lawsuits. Back in December, Taylor Swift fans filed a class action lawsuit again the company with accusations of fraud, price fixing and antitrust violations after they were unable to buy tickets to the superstar’s upcoming tour due to its website crashing during a pre-sale.