For anybody who’s ever raged at feeling yanked around and ripped off by Ticketmaster when trying to buy tickets for a major concert, this must come as welcome news.

In a complaint filed against Ticketmaster and its parent company Live Nation, the FTC says the two companies “deceived artists and consumers by engaging in bait-and-switch pricing through advertising lower prices for tickets than what consumers must pay to purchase tickets.”

And Here Come the big guns

“The Federal Trade Commission and seven states sued Live Nation and Ticketmaster for tacitly coordinating with brokers and allowing them to harvest millions of dollars worth of tickets in the primary market,” reads the FTC’s opening salvo in its September 18 announcement.

“Live Nation and Ticketmaster then sell the illegally h

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