US FTC urged to ban ticket drip pricing
The Federal Trade Commission should make regulating online ticket sales in the US “a high priority”, the Institute for Policy Integrity says
News By | 9 August 2021
A group of New York academics have urged the US consumer watchdog, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), to ban so-called ‘drip pricing’, where additional charges are added at the end of the booking process for tickets and reservations.
In a petition to the FTC, Brian Canfield, Jack Lienke, Matthew Peterson and Max Sarinsky of the Institute for Policy Integrity at New York University School of Law, argue that drip pricing, which is “pervasive for concerts and other events that…
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