{"id":5228,"date":"2019-04-15T17:55:36","date_gmt":"2019-04-15T21:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=5228"},"modified":"2019-04-15T17:55:36","modified_gmt":"2019-04-15T21:55:36","slug":"ontario-event-ticket-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/?p=5228","title":{"rendered":"Ontario Event Ticket Update"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The provincial government of Ontario has removed the price cap on resold tickets in that province and increased fines for violators of the <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Ticket Sales Act (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/laws\/statute\/17t33\" target=\"_blank\">Ticket Sales Act<\/a>, from $10,000 to $25,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The prohibitions related to scalper bots remain but the requirement for sellers to disclose the number of tickets they have available has also been removed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The newly elected government had paused the implementation of the act in July 2018 and had promised consultations. <br><br><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\"Click here (opens in a new tab)\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ontario.ca\/page\/buying-tickets-events-ontario\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> for the Consumer Protection Ontario site on &#8220;Buying tickets to events in Ontario&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The provincial government of Ontario has removed the price cap on resold tickets in that province and increased fines for violators of the Ticket Sales Act, from $10,000 to $25,000. The prohibitions related to scalper bots remain but the requirement for sellers to disclose the number of tickets they have available has also been removed. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,4,5,6],"tags":[1200,677,756,1375,1259,956],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.musicbymailcanada.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}