Resellers, Speculative Tickets, and the FTC’s “Moment of Availability”

Resellers, Speculative Tickets, and the FTC’s “Moment of Availability”

In a recent post I argued that California’s speculative ticketing bill, AB 1349, represents an important step toward restoring basic honesty to the ticket resale market. The bill targets a practice known as speculative ticketing—listing tickets for sale before the seller actually possesses them. Sometimes long before. Sometimes never. Like so many things involving property, timing is everything. AB 1349 would require that a seller own, possess, …