Ticket fees, resale upcharges ‘draining US fans of $11bn annually’
As lawmakers struggle to regulate the market, a white paper proposes capping resale prices and online processing fees to wrangle the "middlemen"
News By Hanna Ellington | 28 August 2026
A white paper from Nashville’s Vanderbilt University has claimed that US ticket buyers are losing more than $11 billion (€9.5bn) in fees annually, renewing calls for policy changes, including…
resale prices capped at face value and online processing fees at 10%, as federal and state lawmakers struggle to regulate the market.
With the research, author Brian Shearer argues that large corporate ticket brokers and online ticketing platforms both take advantage of consumers’ limited options by engaging in scalping practices and…
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