"To be clear, I believed them as soon as I saw the first headline about all this. As I am not a court of law, I am under no obligation to find the team innocent until proven guilty. I relish doing the opposite, in fact. I nonetheless read the criminal complaint. After doing so, I still believe them, but I am now angry."
"All of which is to say that the complaint is the extreme, uncut good stuff, and an incredible look at how the team allegedly squeezed money equally from high- and low-priced ticket buyers through what appears to be an algorithmic, inconsistently applied process. The plaintiffs claim there were two interrelated mechanisms at work: "drip-pricing," in which a good's full cost is slowly increased throughout the buying process, and "junk fees," which are exactly what they sound like and include absurdities like "Per-Ticket Fees" and "Order Fees.""
Three Red Sox fans — Damon Campagna, Lily Rose Smith and Patrick Spaulding — filed a class-action lawsuit in U.S. District Court alleging illegal junk fees and drip pricing from at least 2022 through 2024. The complaint alleges an algorithmic, inconsistently applied process that extracted money from both high- and low-priced ticket buyers. The plaintiffs identify two interrelated mechanisms: drip pricing, which gradually increases a good's full cost during checkout, and junk fees such as "Per-Ticket Fees" and "Order Fees." The team reportedly stopped the scheme before the most recent season, possibly due to legal risk or improved team performance.
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