Ticketmaster can suspend or permanently close your account at any time, for any reason, without necessarily telling you why or giving you advance notice.
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Account termination can result in the loss of stored payment methods, purchase history, and any non-transferable tickets associated with your account, with no guaranteed right of appeal under the terms.
Interpretive note: The practical impact depends on whether terminated accounts retain access to previously purchased tickets; the agreement does not explicitly address this, creating ambiguity about consumers' remedies upon termination.
Renamed and expanded to specify ticket revocation rights, prevention of re-registration, cancellation of orders, and refusal of future purchases in addition to account termination.
View full change record →A suspended or terminated account could mean losing access to tickets you have already purchased and paid for, with no explicit contractual mechanism to retrieve those tickets or seek compensation before the event.
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"Ticketmaster reserves the right to terminate or suspend your account and access to the Services, with or without notice, for conduct that Ticketmaster believes violates these Terms or is harmful to other users, Ticketmaster, or third parties, or for any other reason in Ticketmaster's sole discretion.Excerpt from Ticketmaster's Terms of Use
(1) REGULATORY LANDSCAPE: Unilateral account termination clauses are common in platform terms but may be subject to consumer protection scrutiny if applied in a manner that results in consumers losing paid-for goods without remedy.
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Account termination can result in the loss of stored payment methods, purchase history, and any non-transferable tickets associated with your account, with no guaranteed right of appeal under the terms.
A suspended or terminated account could mean losing access to tickets you have already purchased and paid for, with no explicit contractual mechanism to retrieve those tickets or seek compensation before the event.
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