In many cases we postponed the event and ran it in 2022 or 2023 but the system will not update it from postponed so it is not paying out the balances they owe us. We are trying to work with our customers who have reached out to refund money to them using a new credit card number or even cutting cheques to estates if need be but we need to collect the money back from Eventbrite that we advances so they could try and refund customers. Challenge we have is many customers used emails or contact numbers that are no longer working, we have even confirmed a few are in fact deceased customers and anything postponed longer than a year cannot be refunded to the credit card companies for some reason. COVID forced a large number of cancellations and postponements so we had to setup a credit card with Eventbrite and advanced money to them to refund tickets. The challenge we have is that the system really has not been updated in a few years. People need to remember that eventbrite is a ticket system used by the promoters for events so if they need a refund for a ticket the promoter or event has to refund the ticket first before they can refund the ticket to the customer.

We use eventbrite to books hundreds of shows per year and for the most part have good success with getting our money from them in a timely manner (Wednesday each week they payout less fees).

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