Brown Paper Tickets is a
Seattle
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-based business which provides
ticket
Ticket or tickets may refer to:
Slips of paper
* Lottery ticket
* Parking ticket, a ticket confirming that the parking fee was paid (and the time of the parking start)
* Toll ticket, a slip of paper used to indicate where vehicles entered a to ...
management support for any organizer hosting any sort of ticketed event.
On October 25, 2022, Events.com, Inc., announced its plans to acquire Brown Paper Tickets.
Overview
Brown Paper Tickets attempts to provide ways for event organizers to provide tickets with lower costs than larger ticket companies.
The organization emphasizes simplicity in its ticketing sales process. The company's culture includes providing support to encourage employees to volunteer for charitable causes for 40 hours yearly.
Complaints
In 2020 the company failed to return money for events canceled in the wake of the
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic and COVID pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an disease outbreak, outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December ...
, as well as payments on tickets for events held before COVID-19-related shutdowns, resulting in a wave of lawsuits and complaints filed with the Better Business Bureau.
References
External links
*{{official website, http://www.brownpapertickets.com
Ticket sales companies
Companies based in Seattle