{"id":70057,"date":"2026-03-26T07:55:23","date_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:55:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/ticketmaster-quietly-raised-other-fees-after-us-crackdown-on-hidden-charges\/"},"modified":"2026-03-26T07:55:23","modified_gmt":"2026-03-26T12:55:23","slug":"ticketmaster-quietly-raised-other-fees-after-us-crackdown-on-hidden-charges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/ticketmaster-quietly-raised-other-fees-after-us-crackdown-on-hidden-charges\/","title":{"rendered":"Ticketmaster quietly raised other fees after US crackdown on hidden charges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Documents obtained by Guardian show company increased different fees to \u2018offset revenue loss\u2019 from FTC rule change<\/p>\n<p>Following a wave of regulations banning the surprise fees that appear at the end of a transaction, Ticketmaster stopped charging the extra few dollars it added to each order at checkout. Typically shared with the venue, the order processing fee was a boon to a global platform that sells hundreds of millions of tickets a year.<\/p>\n<p>But documents obtained by the Guardian show that while Ticketmaster eliminated this fee to comply with the rules, the company simply raised the cost of different fees in a number of its venues to ensure it didn\u2019t lose money.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/mar\/26\/ticketmaster-fees-hidden-charges\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Documents obtained by Guardian show company increased different fees to \u2018offset revenue loss\u2019 from FTC rule change Following a wave of regulations banning the surprise fees that appear at the end of a transaction, Ticketmaster stopped charging the extra few dollars it added to each order at checkout. Typically shared with the venue, the order &#8230; <a title=\"Ticketmaster quietly raised other fees after US crackdown on hidden charges\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/26\/ticketmaster-quietly-raised-other-fees-after-us-crackdown-on-hidden-charges\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Ticketmaster quietly raised other fees after US crackdown on hidden charges\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}