Bruce Springsteen News: New York Senator Introduces Ticket Legislation After Botched Springsteen Onsale

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After criticizing Ticketmaster for the Bruce Springsteen ticket fiasco in February, New York Senator Chuck Schumer plans to introduce legislation today that will help curb the secondary-ticket market that frequently drives up prices, the Wall Street Journal reports. Schumer’s bill will propose a two-day waiting period between when tickets go on sale to the public and when resellers can sell them through secondary-ticket sites. The plan would apply to TicketsNow, StubHub, eBay and all other vendors.

After the Springsteen incident, in which buyers were incorrectly routed to secondary site TicketsNow to buy resold tickets for escalated prices when...