People who bought SeatGeek tickets to events in Nevada between November 7, 2020 and May 12, 2025 and were charged fees can claim a share of a $7.75 million settlement until January 5, 2027. The money is divided pro rata, based on the fees SeatGeek kept, and no estimate of what one person might receive has been published. SeatGeek denies any wrongdoing.
Who is in the SeatGeek class?
The class covers anyone who bought electronic tickets to Nevada events through SeatGeek’s website or mobile app during that period and paid fees, according to the settlement website. Open Class Actions notes that the class turns on where the event was held, not where the buyer lives, so a Las Vegas show bought by someone in Ohio counts. A buyer who purchased a ticket for an event outside Nevada does not.
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The class is large. The legal news site ClassAction.org reports about 340,202 people are included. People in it should have received a notice email on or around October 7, 2026, from the settlement administrator, Simpluris.
What is SeatGeek accused of?
The case is Carbonell v. SeatGeek, filed November 7, 2024 in federal court in Nevada. The complaint alleges SeatGeek “did not disclose the total cost of electronic tickets to events in Nevada, inclusive of fees,” which the plaintiff says violates Nevada’s ticket reseller law and its deceptive trade practices act. The class period starts exactly four years before the filing date. ClassAction.org describes the allegation as a failure to show the total cost, including fees, before buyers picked their tickets.
SeatGeek “denies these allegations and any wrongdoing,” the settlement site states. The long-form court notice says the company settled to avoid the uncertainty and expense of continuing the case. The court gave preliminary approval on September 9, 2026, according to ClassAction.org.
How is the $7.75 million divided?
The $7,750,000 fund is not all going to ticket buyers. The notice says administration and notice costs, attorneys’ fees and litigation costs, and a $5,000 award for the class representative, Mars Carbonell, all come out of it. Class counsel, the firm Bursor & Fisher, can ask for no more than one-third of the fund, roughly $2.58 million, and the judge may award less.
What is left goes to people who file claims. Each payment is a pro rata portion based on the total fees SeatGeek retained from that person’s purchases, and the final figure depends on how many valid claims come in. Someone who bought several Nevada tickets and paid more in fees receives a bigger share than a one-time buyer.
No receipts or order confirmations are requested, Open Class Actions reports, so the claim rests on SeatGeek’s own records of fees. Claimants choose how to be paid: PayPal, Venmo, Zelle or a paper check. A check becomes void 180 days after it is issued.
The size of the class puts the money in perspective. If the court gave class counsel the full one-third and every one of the 340,202 people filed a claim, the amount left would average about $15 a person before administration costs. That is arithmetic, not a payout estimate, since no estimate has been published and only people who file share the money.
Payments do not go out yet. The notice says people will be paid 90 days after the court approves the settlement. The final approval hearing is January 12, 2027 at 9:30 a.m. before U.S. District Judge James C. Mahan at the federal courthouse in Las Vegas. ClassAction.org says payments begin only after final approval and the resolution of any appeals, so a payment ninety days after a January 12 approval would arrive in mid-April 2027 at the earliest. The long notice says class counsel must file its fee request by November 22, 2026.
Claim, opt out or do nothing?
The settlement site is blunt about the claim step: it is “the only way to receive a payment.” An online claim must be in by 11:59 p.m. Eastern time on January 5, 2027. A paper form must be postmarked by that date, and a paper copy can be requested from the administrator by email. The administrator’s number is (866) 675-2690.
The other deadline comes first. Anyone who wants out of the settlement must mail an exclusion letter by December 6, 2026, to SeatGeek Ticket Fee Settlement, ATTN: Exclusion Requests, P.O. Box 25191, Santa Ana, CA 92799. The letter has to include the person’s name, address, signature, a statement of purchases and fees charged, and the case name and number. Objections are due the same day, according to the FAQ page.
Doing nothing has a cost. If the settlement becomes final, class members give up the right to sue SeatGeek and the other released parties over these claims, whether or not they file a claim, unless they have excluded themselves. A person who opts out receives no payment but keeps the right to sue.
Did you buy Nevada tickets on SeatGeek before May 2025?
This settlement has three dates that matter and they do not fall in the order a reader expects: an exclusion deadline on December 6, a claim deadline on January 5 and a court hearing on January 12. A buyer who treats January 5 as the only date can sign away the right to sue without knowing it.
The Settlement & Refund Recovery System includes the four-date rule for reading a settlement notice, a step-by-step filing walkthrough and a claim log and payment tracker. The four-date rule is built for exactly this layout, sorting a notice into what to do, by when and what each choice gives up.
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This article was produced with AI assistance and edited for accuracy against the sources linked above.
