Andrew Parsons, Ticketmaster’s UK managing director, denied ripping off fans

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Ticketmaster does not use dynamic pricing, boss tells MPs

The site said the event organiser decided ticket prices, which were set in advance and did not change during the buying process.

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Appearing before MPs, Andrew Parsons - UK managing director at Ticketmaster - insisted it was event organisers that set the exorbitant price of the reunion tour

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Ticketmaster boss claims gigs 'fairly priced' in wake of Oasis concert furore

Ticketmaster has denied it uses so-called dynamic pricing as it was quizzed by MPs investigating concerns that consumers are paying inflated amounts to secure tickets. Andrew Parsons, Ticketmaster’s UK managing director, said told the Business and Trade Committee that the price of tickets on the site “is the price that the artist has worked with us to determine is the price that they want it to be set”. Asked if Ticketmaster was “ripping off fan…

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Related to the Business and Trade Committee’s (BTC) ‘Rip-off Britain: Dynamic pricing and consumer protection’ inquiry, experts were quizzed about the impact of the controversial model on events and consumers. Ticketmaster was represented at the oral evidence session by the group’s UK managing director Andrew Parsons, who initially declined an invitation to attend. Parsons told the committee that the ongoing Competition and Markets Authority (CM…

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Dynamic pricing probed in UK Parliament today

The site said the event organiser decided ticket prices, which were set in advance and did not change during the buying process. Ticketmaster has denied it uses so-called dynamic pricing as it was quizzed by MPs investigating concerns that consumers are paying inflated amounts to secure tickets. Andrew Parsons, Ticketmaster’s UK managing director, said told the Business and Trade Committee that the price of tickets on the site “is the price that…

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Prices of concert tickets sold by Ticketmaster do not change between the time they are added to an online basket and the point of payment, a senior leader from the organisation has told MPs. Ticketmaster’s UK managing director and regional vice president Andrew Parsons made the claims during a grilling by MPs as part of

Ticketmaster does not use dynamic pricing, boss tells MPs

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