You could have free tickets waiting in your Ticketmaster account

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last updated 20 June 2016

A settlement has been reached in a class action lawsuit first filed against Ticketmaster in 2003, and millions of customers are reaping the benefits in the form of free tickets.

Customers in the United States who purchased tickets online between October 1999 and February 2013 and paid an order processing fee that was never refunded will each receive "at least one" ticket code in their accounts that can be redeemed for two general admission tickets, CNN Money reports. Of course, there's a catch — the codes can only be used for tickets to select events at venues owned and operated by Live Nation Entertainment, Ticketmaster's parent company. So far, no eligible events have been announced.

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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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