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By MICHAEL R. SISAK<\/strong><\/p>\n

NEW YORK (AP) \u2014 After weeks of complaints from frustrated fans, StubHub is being sued by customers who say the ticket reseller\u2019s inability to fulfill orders crushed their dreams of going to World Cup.<\/p>\n

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Julia Reeker Moghal and Reuben Renteria, both of California,\u00a0\u00a0in federal court in New York, alleging that \u201cfalse and misleading\u201d sales practices left them without the tickets they purchased for group stage matches last month.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit, which seeks to become a class action, says Moghal and Renteria are among hundreds or even thousands of\u00a0World Cup fans\u00a0who purchased tickets only to find out that they \u201cdid not exist, were revoked without any forewarning, or had been erased\u201d because of what the tournament\u2019s organizer, FIFA, deemed \u201cpoor digital infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n

In addition to monetary damages, Moghal and Renteria are asking that StubHub be barred from selling World Cup tickets and that any profits from those sales be given to affected customers.<\/p>\n

StubHub declined to comment on the lawsuit but said in a statement that its \u201csingular goal is to get fans into events.\u201d<\/p>\n

If anything goes wrong, \u201cour FanProtect Guarantee provides replacement tickets or a full refund,\u201d the company said. \u201cThe World Cup is no different, and the issues fans have experienced are largely driven by problems with the event organizer\u2019s own ticketing infrastructure.\u201d<\/p>\n

FIFA encourages fans to buy tickets through its own marketplace, where it adds a 30% surcharge to every resold ticket \u2014 15% each from the buyer and seller.<\/p>\n

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In a statement, the organization said it \u201chas no visibility over, or control of, secondary market ticket transactions carried out on third-party platforms\u201d and \u201crejects any suggestion that the functional issues being experienced by users of third-party platforms\u201d are the result of FIFA\u2019s ticketing infrastructure.<\/p>\n

For weeks, fans\u00a0have been complaining\u00a0on social media about tickets that never arrived from resellers, orders that were canceled at the last minute and hours they spent trying to sort out problems between FIFA\u2019s ticketing system and outside resale platforms.<\/p>\n

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According to the lawsuit, Moghal paid $1,905 for three tickets to the June 18 Switzerland-Bosnia and Herzegovina match at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, California, but never received them and never got a refund, which would violate the company\u2019s guarantee.<\/p>\n

As the match approached, Moghal was given conflicting information about the status of her order, first receiving a notice that the tickets were ready, then learning that StubHub had canceled her order, then being misled into thinking her tickets would be delivered after all, the lawsuit said.<\/p>\n

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After the initial cancellation, Moghal spent hours on the phone with StubHub, which said the order would remain canceled but then reversed course and promised her that they would be delivered an hour before the match, the lawsuit said.<\/p>\n

Moghal drove to the stadium and waited in line, but never received her tickets, the lawsuit said. She was then promised a refund but never got one, the lawsuit said.<\/p>\n

Had she known \u201cthat StubHub was either unable to deliver or not authorized to deliver her World Cup Tickets to her, she never would have purchased them,\u201d the lawsuit said.<\/p>\n

Similarly, Renteria paid $2,294 for two tickets to the June 18 Mexico-South Korea match in Guadalajara, Mexico, but never received his tickets, the lawsuit said.<\/p>\n

Like Moghal, Renteria received a notice that his tickets were ready, only to find that StubHub canceled the order, the lawsuit said. He was only refunded after \u201csignificant complaints to StubHub,\u201d but had to eat the cost of traveling to Mexico, the lawsuit said.<\/p>\n

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Associated Press reporter R.J. Rico in Atlanta contributed to this report.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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