Ticketmaster Sues Broker Over Use of 'Bots' to Buy Up Tickets
- Prestige bots scooped 40 percent of Hamilton seats, suit says
- Customers cheated of opportunity to buy, Ticketmaster says
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Ticketmaster says its customers are being ripped off by companies that use illegal “bots” to scoop up large quantities of highly sought tickets and it’s fighting back.
The Beverly Hills, California-based company sued Prestige Entertainment, claiming it used computer programs to illegally buy as many as 40 percent of the available seats for performances of "Hamilton" in New York and the majority of the tickets Ticketmaster had available for the Mayweather v. Pacquiao fight in Las Vegas two years ago.