Sports fans want one thing: to see the game, hassle-free.
But ticket resale price caps make it harder to cheer on your favorite team.
Price caps mean you can't easily buy or resell tickets through websites with safety features like payment protections and guarantees. But tickets don't disappear—they just move to informal markets like Facebook groups, Instagram, TikTok, or messaging apps, where
oversight is limited and if something goes wrong, you're on your own.
That's why areas with ticket resale price caps have four times more ticket fraud.
In 2019, the Ontario government said price caps were "unenforceable." Seven years later, nothing has changed.
Tell lawmakers: Protect fans, not broken policies. Reject price caps.
I am writing to express concern about renewed efforts to impose ticket resale price caps in Ontario and urge you to reject this policy. Ontario has already tested this policy. The province introduced a resale cap in 2017, only to realize it hurt fans and to call it "unenforceable" in 2019 and suspend the law.
Price caps do not reduce demand or lower prices. Instead, they stop fans like me from using safe, marketplaces and force us onto unsafe black markets on social media that are filled with scammers. And when something does go wrong, there's no solution—fans just lose money.
These rules will limit legitimate resale platforms, leaving fans with fewer choices and less flexibility. They will make it harder to get tickets when a game sells out or to sell my tickets if my plans change.
Reintroducing price caps will not make tickets cheaper. It will make supporting our great teams harder for fans like me.
I urge you to support fans and reject resale price caps.
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