A Georgia ticket broker must pay $300,000 to the Federal Trade Commission to settle allegations that it used illegal means to purchase and resell at high profits millions of dollars’ worth of tickets to concerts by artists like Megan Moroney and Metallica, among other live events.

In a complaint filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia, the FTC alleged Elite Events and Tickets regularly circumvented security measures and other controls that restricted the number of tickets they could acquire. Elite would then resell tickets on StubHub, Vivid Seats and other secondary marketplaces at a significant markup, often 100% to 500% more than the original price, according to the complaint.

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