StubHub’s FIFA Ticket Debacle Is Different This Time (opens in new tab)

StubHub's FIFA World Cup ticket controversy is reviving long-standing concerns about speculative ticketing, hidden fees, consumer arbitration clauses, and marketplace accountability. Critics raised many of the same issues in the 2024 Kaiser v. StubHub litigation and before the FTC's junk-fee rulemaking. Now that StubHub is a public company, the debate extends beyond unhappy fans to regulators, investors, and questions about whether speculative ticketing is an isolated problem—or a feature of ...