A class action lawsuit involving Ticketmaster has reached a settlement. If you purchased any tickets from Ticketmaster online between the dates of October 21, 1999 and October 19, 2011, you are urged to visit the website set of specifically for this class action lawsuit. You won’t need to provide receipts as they will simply be confirming your email address associated with your Ticketmaster account.

Actual cash isn’t being returned, however you will receive a credit for future purchases. They have agreed to settle at a rate of $1.50 per transaction for up to 17 transactions. For those consumers who paid extra for expedited service, they will receive an additional $5.oo in credits, also for up to 17 transactions. The original two plaintiffs are receiving a settlement for $20,000 each.

This doesn’t eliminate future fees associated with online purchases at Ticketmaster, the fault is that Ticketmaster didn’t disclose to the public that their fees were profit based. Ticketmaster now has a disclosure clause addressing the profit portion of their fees. Ant future Ticketmaster purchases you plan to make online will still have the same fees that you are accustomed to paying, with an additional disclosure clause.

The actual settlement agreement states that the $1.50 credit can only be combined with one other credit, a maximum value of $3.00. As for the additional expedited service fees and settlement of $5.00 per occurrence, you’ll only be eligible to take advantage of that settlement to cover future fees associated with expedited service. In the end, Ticketmaster has covered their bases in several stipulations of the settlement agreement.