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Company: TicketsNow
Penalty: $50,000
Year: 2009
Date: June 30, 2009
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: TicketsNow, a subsidiary of Ticketmaster, agreed to pay $50,000 in settlement of allegations of deceptive marketing practices, by creating customized web sites where it resold tickets at higher prices while consumers believed they were buying face value tickets from the actual event operators.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Illinois Attorney General
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: Illinois
Facility City: Rolling Meadows
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