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Ontario fined the online ticket resale platform SeatGeek $25,000 on August 28 for allegedly violating a new law that bans selling tickets above their face value. The company did not appeal the decision within the two-week window and must now pay the penalty. This fine is part of Ontario’s efforts to combat illegal ticket resales as outlined in its 2026 budget, aimed at protecting consumers and maintaining affordability for fans. SeatGeek has not commented on the matter yet.
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On Aug. 28, the Ontario government fined the ticket resale platform SeatGeek $25,000 for allegedly violating new regulations that prohibit selling tickets above their face value. The fine was imposed under financial enforcement measures introduced in the 2026 Ontario Budget: A Plan to Protect Ontario, which aims to crack down on illegal ticket resales and protect consumers from overpriced tickets. SeatGeek did not appeal within the two-week window following the issuance of the penalty, meaning they must now pay the full amount for failing to ensure tickets were not sold above face value, for not disclosing original prices, and for facilitating sales without proof of the initial ticket cost. Ticket resale companies like StubHub have criticized the new law as confusing and difficult to comply with. The regulations officially came into effect on April 24 when the budget received Royal Assent.
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The Ontario government has fined the ticket resale platform SeatGeek $25,000 for allegedly breaking its new ban on selling tickets for more than face value.
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The fine was levied against the company on Aug. 28 and, according to the province, it did not file an appeal in the two weeks that followed.
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That means SeatGeek will now be expected to pay the full $25,000 penalty to Ontario for allegedly failing to ensure tickets are not resold above face value, for failing to disclose the original face value of the ticket, and for facilitating the resale of tickets without proof of original price.
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“The penalty is the result of new financial enforcement measures introduced by the province through the 2026 Ontario Budget: A Plan to Protect Ontario, to crack down on illegal ticket resales, protect consumers and families, and keep tickets affordable for fans and families,” the government wrote in a news release.
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SeatGeek did not immediately respond to a request for comment from Global News.
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Ticket resale companies have claimed the new law is confusing and hard to follow.
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The resale rules technically came into effect as soon as the budget received Royal Assent on April 24, but the government opted for an education-first approach, writing to secondary sellers like SeatGeek, StubHub, FIFA and VividSeat to tell them to get in line.
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, despite the letters from the government, tickets on those sites continued to be sold online well above face value.
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tickets → continue → value
In early June, the provincial government named SeatGeek and StubHub on its Consumer Beware list as a punishment for selling tickets above face value.
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government → name → value
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The government took months to issue the fines and, behind the scenes, industry sources understood changes were coming to the law.
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Those sources previously told Global News the premier’s office had instructed Minister of Public and Business Service Delivery and Procurement Stephen Crawford’s office to draft regulations to work out how to define the face value of a ticket and how secondary markets will have to verify it.
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The concern from resale sites is that they currently have no way to verify the original price of tickets because they can’t access the e-tickets or metadata from primary sellers.
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People looking to resell tickets could use artificial intelligence or Photoshop to edit the price of their original ticket, for example, to resell it for more with no easy way to spot the change.
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The unappealed fine for SeatGeek raises questions over whether changes are still planned for the law.
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changes → raise → law
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