The defendants will provide $20,000 for ticket buyers to obtain refunds, Attorney General Michelle Henry said.
An Easton business owner has agreed to refund the cost of tickets for the 2020 Great Philadelphia Comic Con that was postponed and then canceled because of the pandemic, Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry said Monday.
Former Attorney General Josh Shapiro sued Great Conventions LLC and its owner, Christopher Wertz, in October 2021 to address complaints from ticket buyers that no refunds were offered for the canceled convention.Ticket buyers must file a consumer complaint form before May 10 and attach a receipt as proof they purchased a ticket to the event.
“If an event is canceled, ticket holders deserve their money back, plain and simple,” Henry said in a statement. “These defendants thought they could skirt the law by postponing the event as long as possible to hold on to the money they made from ticket sales.”As part of the agreement, Great Conventions LLC is permanently barred from operating and or selling tickets to conventions or other public events in Pennsylvania, Henry said.
The convention was scheduled for April 4-6, 2020, at the Greater Philadelphia Expo Center in Oaks, Montgomery County, but then was postponed because of COVID-19 restrictions.However, the demands for a refund were made immediately after the first postponement was announced in March 2020. Ticket buyers“You need to offer refunds, period,” one commenter wrote. “It’s not our fault that Coronavirus has cancelled this event, so we should not suffer as a result.
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