NEWARK
– Attorney General Anne Milgram today
filed suit against three ticket sellers for
allegedly violating the state’s Consumer
Fraud Act and Advertising Regulations by advertising
and selling tickets to three upcoming Bruce
Springsteen concerts at Giants Stadium before
the tickets are available for sale.
Undercover investigators from
the Division of Consumer Affairs yesterday
purchased tickets offered for sale by Select-A-Ticket,
Inc., Orbitz Worldwide, Inc., and TicketNetwork,
Inc. even though the companies did not possess
the tickets, could not provide them at the
time of sale, and were not available for purchase
until June 1, 2009.
Some tickets offered by Orbitz
Worldwide and TicketNetwork are for seats
which do not physically exist within Giants
Stadium, the lawsuit charges.
“Advertising and selling
tickets before they are made available for
initial purchase by the public is an outrageous
practice. It is fraud to offer to sell a product
that one does not possess, and may never possess,
and I am committed to ending this deceptive
practice,” Attorney General Milgram
said.
Select-A-Ticket is based in
Riverdale, N.J. and operates a retail location
in the Willowbrook Mall in Wayne, N.J. The
company, which is owned and operated by Thomas
Patania, also maintains a web site to transact
ticket sales.
Orbitz Worldwide, Inc., which
does business as cheaptickets.com, is based
in Chicago. TicketNetwork, Inc. is based in
Connecticut. Orbitz and TicketNetwork are
believed to be partners in a joint venture
to advertise and resell tickets to events
in New Jersey.
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