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Article content We’ve seen the high profile arrest recently of a Burlington woman, Denise Tisor, for allegedly selling fake Taylor Swift tickets. A recent news release from the Toronto Police Service stated that Tisor allegedly sold fraudulent tickets worth $70,000 and is now facing a raft of charges. Recommended Videos If the accusations are proven true, for every Denise Tisor, or Denise Blackhawk as she allegedly went by on Facebook, there are countless other scammers using legit services to try to take advantage of fans — be it for Taylor Swift or other in-demand acts. When Melissa bought her Taylor Swift tickets in August 2023, those tickets didn’t actually exist — or if they did, they wouldn’t end up in her hands when the big day came a couple of weeks ago. Less than 45 minutes before the concert was to start, Melissa found herself on the phone with a customer service representative from StubHub, the secondary market reseller. Like many disappointed fans, Melissa wasn’t one of the lucky ones able to secure tickets when they went on sale via Ticketmaster. While Ticketmaster couldn’t provide tickets, StubHub offered the promise of a night with Taylor Swift for an inflated price. The catch was the tickets wouldn’t be delivered until the day of the show, at least that’s what the email said. Five weeks before the show, a confirmation email arrived that confirmed the tickets would be delivered as promised. “We wanted to inform you that your Taylor Swift order, will be fulfilled in time for your event!” the email read. The email went on to say that for security reasons, all tickets were being released within 72 hours of the event. On the night of the show, the best StubHub could do was to offer other tickets that were not nearly as good. StubHub said they tried but were unable to contact the seller. The only two options on the table, take the new seats that were not nearly as close to the stage or take a refund and go home disappointed. While a verbal offer for financial compensation was made on the phone that night, StubHub later reneged on that offer, saying there was no record of that offer. “StubHub is committed to providing fans with a secure and seamless ticketing experience — our FanProtect Guarantee ensures that every order is 100% backed,” StubHub said in a statement. “In the rare case of an issue, we will strive to find an equivalent or better ticket or provide a full refund. If a seller is found in violation of our policy, they can be penalized with fees up to double the cost of the ticket sold and removal from the platform.” Recommended video StubHub insists that just 0.2% of all orders in North American within their network are fraudulent. They also state that since people selling fraudulent tickets won’t be paid, there is no incentive to make the attempt. Yet clearly some people still do and for every 1 million ticket orders, 2,000 are problematic. Perhaps it’s time to enforce the existing law. The seller of fraudulent tickets could also be charged under Ontario law. For that matter, perhaps StubHub could be, too. Ontario’s Ticket Sales Act, 2017, makes it is illegal to sell speculative tickets, meaning tickets people don’t already have in their possession. “No person shall make a ticket available for sale if the ticket is not in the person’s possession or control,” the law states. Penalties for breaking this law range from fines starting at $10,000 and rising to jail time of up to two years less a day. Despite the law being on the books, it’s not really enforced and that is the real problem, say industry insiders. Ticketmaster has invested in new technology and adopted new techniques, such as the verified fan system, to try to stop or slow scalping on the secondary market. It’s had some effect, but each step they make, the unscrupulous sellers using platforms like StubHub, SeatGeek or others try to find ways around them. One thing that would be easy to do would be to apply the law stopping sellers from listing seats they don’t have. While that is harder to do once a big show is on sale, it’s easier to do when tickets are being sold on the secondary market before they are even officially on sale. Before tickets for the Oasis show in Toronto at Downsview were even on sale via Ticketmaster, they were already listed for sale on secondary market sites. The same happened this past week with Post Malone and his show that takes place next March. People who are listing seats before the concert tickets are even available should be prosecuted and so should the platforms allowing that. This simple act would end the practise of speculative ticket selling, at least for the pre-sale time. The law could also be updated to require that any reselling platform verify the ticket exists. Many of the major resale platforms already do that with sports like baseball, hockey or basketball but refuse to do so for the lucrative concert market. We will never completely be rid of scalpers, or the secondary ticket market as they now call it and I’m not sure we want to be. These services provide a valuable service for people who buy tickets to an event and then can’t go, and they also help those who didn’t get tickets but want them. That said, we have to stamp out fraud, which is clearly happening. If the industry doesn’t clean up its own mess, then government will have to.Labor eyes last chance of 2024 to tick policy boxestop646 com login 。

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It was no different for Jimmy Carter in the early 1970s. It took meeting several presidential candidates and then encouragement from an esteemed elder statesman before the young governor, who had never met a president himself, saw himself as something bigger. He announced his White House bid on December 12 1974, amid fallout from the Vietnam War and the resignation of Richard Nixon. Then he leveraged his unknown, and politically untainted, status to become the 39th president. That whirlwind path has been a model, explicit and otherwise, for would-be contenders ever since. “Jimmy Carter’s example absolutely created a 50-year window of people saying, ‘Why not me?’” said Steve Schale, who worked on President Barack Obama’s campaigns and is a long-time supporter of President Joe Biden. Mr Carter’s journey to high office began in Plains, Georgia where he received end-of-life care decades after serving as president. David Axelrod, who helped to engineer Mr Obama’s four-year ascent from state senator to the Oval Office, said Mr Carter’s model is about more than how his grassroots strategy turned the Iowa caucuses and New Hampshire primary into his springboard. “There was a moral stain on the country, and this was a guy of deep faith,” Mr Axelrod said. “He seemed like a fresh start, and I think he understood that he could offer something different that might be able to meet the moment.” Donna Brazile, who managed Democrat Al Gore’s 2000 presidential campaign, got her start on Mr Carter’s two national campaigns. “In 1976, it was just Jimmy Carter’s time,” she said. Of course, the seeds of his presidential run sprouted even before Mr Nixon won a second term and certainly before his resignation in August 1974. In Mr Carter’s telling, he did not run for governor in 1966, he lost, or in 1970 thinking about Washington. Even when he announced his presidential bid, neither he nor those closest to him were completely confident. “President of what?” his mother, Lillian, replied when he told her his plans. But soon after he became governor in 1971, Mr Carter’s team envisioned him as a national player. They were encouraged in part by the May 31 Time magazine cover depicting Mr Carter alongside the headline “Dixie Whistles a Different Tune”. Inside, a flattering profile framed Mr Carter as a model “New South” governor. In October 1971, Carter ally Dr Peter Bourne, an Atlanta physician who would become US drug tsar, sent his politician friend an unsolicited memo outlining how he could be elected president. On October 17, a wider circle of advisers sat with Mr Carter at the Governor’s Mansion to discuss it. Mr Carter, then 47, wore blue jeans and a T-shirt, according to biographer Jonathan Alter. The team, including Mr Carter’s wife Rosalynn, who died aged 96 in November 2023, began considering the idea seriously. “We never used the word ‘president’,” Mr Carter recalled upon his 90th birthday, “but just referred to national office”. Mr Carter invited high-profile Democrats and Washington players who were running or considering running in 1972, to one-on-one meetings at the mansion. He jumped at the chance to lead the Democratic National Committee’s national campaign that year. The position allowed him to travel the country helping candidates up and down the ballot. Along the way, he was among the Southern governors who angled to be George McGovern’s running mate. Mr Alter said Mr Carter was never seriously considered. Still, Mr Carter got to know, among others, former vice president Hubert Humphrey and senators Henry Jackson of Washington, Eugene McCarthy of Maine and Mr McGovern of South Dakota, the eventual nominee who lost a landslide to Mr Nixon. Mr Carter later explained he had previously defined the nation’s highest office by its occupants immortalised by monuments. “For the first time,” Mr Carter told The New York Times, “I started comparing my own experiences and knowledge of government with the candidates, not against ‘the presidency’ and not against Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. It made it a whole lot easier”. Adviser Hamilton Jordan crafted a detailed campaign plan calling for matching Mr Carter’s outsider, good-government credentials to voters’ general disillusionment, even before Watergate. But the team still spoke and wrote in code, as if the “higher office” were not obvious. It was reported during his campaign that Mr Carter told family members around Christmas 1972 that he would run in 1976. Mr Carter later wrote in a memoir that a visit from former secretary of state Dean Rusk in early 1973 affirmed his leanings. During another private confab in Atlanta, Mr Rusk told Mr Carter plainly: “Governor, I think you should run for president in 1976.” That, Mr Carter wrote, “removed our remaining doubts.” Mr Schale said the process is not always so involved. “These are intensely competitive people already,” he said of governors, senators and others in high office. “If you’re wired in that capacity, it’s hard to step away from it.” “Jimmy Carter showed us that you can go from a no-name to president in the span of 18 or 24 months,” said Jared Leopold, a top aide in Washington governor Jay Inslee’s unsuccessful bid for Democrats’ 2020 nomination. “For people deciding whether to get in, it’s a real inspiration,” Mr Leopold continued, “and that’s a real success of American democracy”.

Brits have been urged to look out for a highly sought after 50 pence coin that could be worth hundreds of pounds. This piece features a beloved Christmas story character and could fetch around £300 if sold to a collector. According to an expert, known online as the Coin Collecting Wizard, the 2008 50p adorned with the image of the Snowman from the Raymond Briggs book is worth finding. Speaking on social media platform TikTok , he said: “This 50 pence is worth over £300. "This sought after collectible coin is a new addition of a rare Christmas themed design first issued in 2003 inspired by Raymond Briggs’ The Snowman first published in 1978. “The magical tale of a young boy's snowman coming to life was adapted into a short animated film in 1982, which has become a mainstay of British festive TV schedules.” Both the 2003 and 2008 designs were created to mark anniversaries of the book’s publication. He continued: “The 2003 snowman and James coin was the first in a popular series produced in partnership with Popjoy Mint to mark the 25th anniversary of the original storybook. "This 2008 coin struck for the 30th anniversary recreates the 2003 design showing James and his snowy companion ready to take to the air in front of some seasonal fir trees. “The value of this point increased dramatically over the years and easily sells for over £300 today.” At the time this article was first published a copy of this coin was listed on eBay for £1,095.