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Going to Coachella is fun, but it is also pretty expensive (to the tune of $375 per ticket, not counting camping). The festival knows this, so they offer a payment plan system – which is now the target of a class action lawsuit.
The lawsuit alleges the companies behind Coachella and other music festivals of offering ticket payment plans that require would-be concert goers to forfeit everything they’ve paid toward the purchase of festival tickets if they are more than 10 days late on a single payment.
The details of the lawsuit, filed by Fernald Law Group, were outlined in a press release on Friday:
According to a new lawsuit filed Thursday, the plaintiff and class representative purchased two tickets and a camping pass for Weekend 1 of the 2015 Coachella Music Festival for a total of $850.00, using the festival’s payment plan option. After timely making four payments for a total of $617.90, fraudulent charges appeared on the plaintiff’s credit card, causing her bank to issue a new one. Unbeknownst to plaintiff, the next payment on her Coachella payment plan was refused as a result of the new card number. The plaintiff did not realize what had happened until March 2015 when she contacted Coachella to find out when her festival tickets would be arriving. She was informed that due to the failed payment, her tickets along with the $617.90 paid toward them had been forfeited. According to the lawsuit, Coachella turned right around and resold Plaintiff’s tickets for full value for the sold out festival.
The plaintiff is not alone. Many ticketholders have suffered the same loss as a result of one late or missed payment under the ticket payment plans being offered by Defendants. The lawsuit seeks the return of the forfeited monies, as well as an injunction stopping the forfeiture practice.
The lawsuit is captioned Drake v. Coachella Music Festival…no, not that Drake, a woman named Abigail Drake…and is currently pending in the Los Angeles Superior Court.
