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StubHub’s $3 Beyoncé Ticket Surcharge Blasted in ‘Junk Fee’ Suit
- Ticket seller is accused of hiding fees until the last minute
- ‘Bait and switch’ amid dizzying checkout process, suit claims
Beyoncé performing in 2016.
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StubHub Inc. systematically slips in a $3 charge for Beyoncé and other hot concerts at the very end of a dizzying checkout process, according to a lawsuit that accuses it of fueling a “junk fee” epidemic.
The ticket resale site is engaging in a deceptive practice so egregious that even the White House has blasted it as costing US families tens of billions of dollars a year, according to the proposed class action suit, filed late Wednesday in federal court in San Francisco.