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Ticketmaster: billing error

Since May 12, 2025 the FTC fee rule (rule ftc-junk-fees-rule) requires the total ticket price, with all mandatory fees, to be shown up front. Compare the advertised all-in price with the checkout total and the card statement.

BCredibility B · last verified 2026-10-13 · dossier 2026-10-13 · 85% official or government sources · 1 from search snippets or archives
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Grade B (good: mostly official pages; check the flagged values before relying on them). 85% of 47 sources are the organization's own pages or government sites; 1 value(s) were read from a search snippet or an archive copy.

All Ticketmaster contactsOpen in the interactive directoryJSON

Collect

Steps

  1. Compare the price shown when you chose the tickets with the total charged. Ticketmaster says the price shown covers face value and required fees; taxes are generally added separately.

  2. Ask Fan Support to correct a charge above the total you agreed to.

    PhoneTicketmaster Fan Support (customer service) +1-800-653-8000

  3. If it is not corrected, send a billing-error dispute to the card issuer (rule fcba-billing-error).

  4. Report undisclosed mandatory fees to the FTC (rule ftc-junk-fees-rule) and to your state attorney general.

    RegulatorFederal Trade Commission +1-877-382-4357

More contacts for this issue

ChatChat with Fan Support from the order in My Tickets Sign-in required

Facts you can cite

Rules in force

If that fails, escalate

Go up one step at a time. Keep the reference numbers and dates from each contact.

  1. Customer service

    PhoneTicketmaster Fan Support (customer service) +1-800-653-8000

  2. Written complaint

    ChatChat with Fan Support from the order in My Tickets Sign-in required

    Use chat from the order, or the Email Us option (contact-forms) if you cannot sign in. Keep the transcript.

  3. Card or bank dispute

    Fair Credit Billing Act billing-error and purchase-dispute rights (Regulation Z)

    Electronic Fund Transfer Act error resolution and unauthorized-transfer liability (Regulation E)

    Card dispute for a cancelled event that was not refunded (rule fcba-billing-error).

  4. Federal regulator

    RegulatorFederal Trade Commission +1-877-382-4357

  5. State agency

    Your state’s attorney general. Find it in the list of state agencies (also as JSON: states/<code>.json, for example states/ny.json).

Watch out

  • Chat needs sign-in to the Ticketmaster account; people who cannot sign in must use the Email Us option or a form on the contact page.
  • The Request Refund button is inside the signed-in account and appears only when the Event Organizer offers refunds.
  • Refund requests are final and cannot be changed once submitted.
  • Refunds for transferred tickets go only to the original purchaser; box office purchases are refunded at the box office.
  • The Purchase Policy, Resale Purchase Policy and Terms of Use at legal.ticketmaster.com load their text through a script, and automated fetches see only the page frame.

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