AEW To Go After Unethical Ticket Sellers Who Split Up Group Pods For Dynamite
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AEW is all about bringing wrestling fans back to their Dynamite shows at Daily’s Place and they’re aiming to make sure that it’s all done in a legal and safe manner for the folks in attendance.
Earlier this week, the company announced that they would be bringing fans back at a 10% capacity of the venue’s limit with all the proper COVID-19 guidelines in place for the state of Florida. However, Tony Khan noticed that the secondary ticket seller market is trying to disrupt the process by splitting their group packages up. Khan took to social media today to assure fans that AEW would not allow that to happen.
“We’ve seen unethical ticket resellers bought outdoor seat pods meant for family/friends & illegally tried to split them, theoretically to put unacquainted fans sat together,” Tony tweeted. “Nope. We’ll seek out & cancel any split pods to ensure fans can enjoy the show while keeping safe distance.
“We’re very grateful for the fast sellout of Thursday’s outdoor AEW Dynamite live show at 10% venue capacity that we recently announced. The show will be open to a limited number of fans wearing mandatory protective masks who will be seated in a specially designed, physically distanced arrangement in the open air Daily’s Place amphitheater and will air live on TNT on Thursday, August 27 at 8pm ET/7pm CT.”
“Thank you to all of the great wrestling fans who support AEW! Here is my full statement regarding the illegal and unethical outdoor seating pod splitting on the secondary ticket resale market, a move by predatory online ticket resellers which won’t work and won’t be tolerated:”
Khan’s statement is as follows:
The tickets were sold in groups, or pods, with the intention of keeping fans with their friends and families and safely distanced from other fans in attendance. We’re seeing some of these tickets being sold on the secondary market in a way that splits original pod, and therefore potentially combining two or more groups of unacquainted fans within the same pod. This was clearly not our intention.
Nothing is more important than the health and well-being of the entire AEW family, and that certainly includes our fans. It’s an illegal. unethical and inappropriate move by secondary market sellers, and we intend to police this situation online as well as at the venue. To that end, we’re asking our fans to inform us if they’ve feel they’ve purchased tickets that were originally part of a larger pod and we will do what we can to offer a remedy. Furthermore, we will be watching for any AEW Dynamite tickets on the secondary market, and if we see anyone trying to divide a pod for resale, we will cancel the entire original order.
It’s going to be great to have fans back at our show with social distancing precautions in place that will make these outdoor events safe for everyone in attendance. Thank you to all of the great wrestling fans who support AEW!
Tony Khan President & CEO, All Elite Wrestling
Thank you to all of the great wrestling fans who support AEW! Here is my full statement regarding the illegal and unethical outdoor seating pod splitting on the secondary ticket resale market, a move by predatory online ticket resellers which won’t work and won’t be tolerated: pic.twitter.com/CTC2ETNviA
— Tony Khan (@TonyKhan) August 21, 2020
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