{"id":804293,"date":"2020-02-18T08:23:24","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T15:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=954112"},"modified":"2020-02-18T08:23:24","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T15:23:24","slug":"pearl-jam-detail-concerns-with-flawed-ticket-reform-bill-in-letter-to-congressmen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/pearl-jam-detail-concerns-with-flawed-ticket-reform-bill-in-letter-to-congressmen\/","title":{"rendered":"Pearl Jam Detail Concerns With \u2018Flawed\u2019 Ticket Reform Bill in Letter to Congressmen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pearl Jam<\/a> issued a letter<\/a> to two Democratic representatives urging them to reconsider some parts of a bill meant to crack down on ticket scalping, Politico <\/i><\/a>reports.<\/p>\n

New Jersey\u2019s Bill Pascrell and Frank Pallone, Jr. are behind the \u201cBetter Oversight of Secondary Sales and Accountability in Concert Ticketing Act,\u201d<\/a> which they first introduced in 2009 after Ticketmaster redirected people looking for Bruce Springsteen tickets to secondary-market sites with huge mark-ups (fittingly, the bill is referred to as the \u201cBOSS Act\u201d). Pascrell and Pallone, Jr. reintroduced the bill last year, and it seeks to add greater transparency to the ticket-selling process and enact regulations that would crack down on scalpers, bots and resellers.<\/p>\n

But Pearl Jam \u2014 which has been advocating for fairer ticket-selling practices<\/a> since the Nineties \u2014 said the BOSS Act, as it stands now, is \u201cflawed,\u201d and that it \u201cprimarily, if not entirely, benefits professional ticket resellers using the so-called \u2018secondary market.’\u201d The band took issue with two specific components: one that would block non-transferrable ticketing, and another that would require primary ticket sellers to disclose the number of tickets available to the general public a week before going on sale.<\/p>\n

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Non-transferable ticketing has been a major part<\/a> of Pearl Jam\u2019s recent touring plans, including their upcoming Gigaton<\/i> tour<\/a>. Non-transferable tickets can\u2019t be re-sold on secondary markets because the person who made the original purchase has to be present when entering the building; additionally, making non-transferable tickets fully digital allows for a constantly refreshing barcode that can\u2019t be copied. (For fans who end up unable to attend a show, Pearl Jam launched fan-to-fan ticket exchanges to keep tickets at face value.)<\/p>\n

In their letter to Pascrell and Pallone, Pearl Jam stated that blocking non-transferable tickets makes it easier for scalpers to get their hands on tickets. \u201cOver the last decade of selling concert tickets, we have seen this become an important tool to ensure our fans get to see us at a reasonable price,\u201d the band said. \u201cThe benefits to bad actors in the secondary market ultimately hurt the consumers more than the challenges around restricting transferability as professional resellers get tickets meant for fans.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for forcing ticket sellers to disclose the total number of tickets available to the general public, Pearl Jam argued that this \u201churts consumers more than it will help.\u201d The band noted that bulk purchasers, like professional resellers, care far more about the total number of tickets available than fans. Additionally, forcing the total number of tickets to be announced beforehand would limit a band\u2019s ability to \u201ccreate additional ticket opportunities,\u201d such as opening up \u201cobstructed view\u201d seats.<\/p>\n

Despite the criticisms, Pearl Jam praised most of the reforms in the BOSS Act, writing, \u201cWe support the elements that prevent \u2018speculative ticketing,\u2019 where \u2018bots\u2019 hold many tickets until they find a buyer, preventing real fans from buying tickets directly and misleading others into thinking they\u2019re guaranteed a particular seat. We also agree that the secondary market should not be permitted to confuse consumers by using deceptive websites and support the provisions requiring clear disclosure of all fees attached to a particular ticket.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pearl Jam issued a letter to two Democratic representatives urging them to reconsider some parts of a bill meant to crack down on ticket scalping, Politico reports. New Jersey\u2019s Bill Pascrell and Frank Pallone, Jr. are behind the \u201cBetter Oversight of Secondary Sales and Accountability in Concert Ticketing Act,\u201d which they first introduced in 2009 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-804293","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-22 10:32:57","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=804293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/804293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=804293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=804293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=804293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}