Mississippi Business Journal » false advertising http://msbusiness.com Mississippi Business Journal Fri, 24 May 2013 20:36:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 FTC settles with Ticketmaster http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/02/21/ftc-settles-with-ticketmaster/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=ftc-settles-with-ticketmaster http://msbusiness.com/blog/2010/02/21/ftc-settles-with-ticketmaster/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 02:01:54 +0000 Wally Northway http://msbusiness.com/?p=19489 WASHINGTON — The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced it has settled charges that Ticketmaster and its affiliates used deceptive bait-and-switch tactics to sell event tickets to consumers. Ticketmaster has agreed to pay refunds to consumers who bought tickets for 14 Bruce Springsteen concerts in 2009 through its ticket resale web site TicketsNow, and to be [...]

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