Ticketmaster faces Quebec class action over alleged abusive fees

The world’s dominant ticketing platform, Ticketmaster, is facing a class action in Quebec after a court authorized a lawsuit over allegedly abusive service fees. On Monday, Eleni Yiannakis, a Quebec Superior Court judge, ruled that the plaintiffs had met the legal threshold for a proper trial. If successful, Ticketmaster could be forced to pay out compensatory damages for affected consumers. The lawsuit, initially filed in 2024 by the Montreal law firm Paquette Gadler, alleges that the ser