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Make tickets online $500. When you arrive you're given a special ticket-locked voucher that lets you go back to the website and get $480 back (assuming tickets are still $20 like when I was 20 years old).
Ignoring how Ticketmaster is complicit in all this... it makes me really sad for humanity that people choose a "job" that is 100% about exploiting people. And that's it entirely legal and "normal" for the most part. A decade ago or so I went on a first date with a woman who was a professional scalper. Unfortunately I didn't have the balls to ask her about the ethics of what she does. (I expect it would have been some…
Protip I've used the last couple years (worked before that as well, but not as much need) - just check StubHub or other second hand markets a week or so before the show. Generally the scalpers over buy and will start to panic and unload tickets at very good prices the closer the show gets.
This is not true at all as a general rule. It all comes down to whether or not there's enough demand to fill the venue. If there's plenty of demand, StubHub prices will remain much higher than face value. They absolutely do not ever become available at good prices. On the other hand, if the venue is larger than demand, then yes -- you can easily score half-price tickets a few days leading up to the show. But good luc…
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For the same reason why artists use Ticketmaster. Do you think they are stupid and just hand over ticket distribution to a company that routinely charges 30$ fees to a 40$ ticket? No, artists and producers aren't stupid, they get the most of the money from the Ticketmaster "fees". But when a fan sees a 70$ ticket, they'd may decide Bruce Springsteen (net worth 650$ million) isn't a man of the people. When they see a…
Ticketmaster is mostly in the business of being the company that everyone hates so the artists can pretend to be helpless and of the people.
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The problem is legitimate ticketholders don't like this. You're going to a concert with your SO that you had to buy tickets for six months in advance, then you break up and get together with someone else. Now instead of transferring the ticket you paid for to your new SO, you're stuck either going with your ex (that'll go over well) or going by yourself. People don't like this.
I’ll take not having shared seating with a potential future partner due to the breakdown of my relationship with my current partner over spending $450/person to see a band I liked back in high school.
Know how I dealt with ticket scalping? I stopped going to shows like that in the 90's, then stopped buying cd's, and eventually stopped supporting the music industry (and media cartels in general).
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The problem is legitimate ticketholders don't like this. You're going to a concert with your SO that you had to buy tickets for six months in advance, then you break up and get together with someone else. Now instead of transferring the ticket you paid for to your new SO, you're stuck either going with your ex (that'll go over well) or going by yourself. People don't like this.
That is completely made up example - I’ve been to events that do this and you’re typically allowed to purchase 2-4 tickets per id
This has been the same scam for decades, there's always motivation, financially, for people to subvert the rules, and ticketmaster wins either way. After stubhub/ebay basically legitimized scalping, it was all over. Know how I dealt with ticket scalping? I stopped going to shows like that in the 90's, then stopped buying cd's, and eventually stopped supporting the music industry (and media cartels in general).
IMO, Comic Con has done a pretty fine job at eliminating scalpers. They do this in a few ways: - Random selection over an hour at ticket sale time that is unique per device, with some 'are you human' checks along the way to make it more difficult to bot. - Requiring physical delivery of the badge with a maximum number per address, or government issued ID to pick it up in person. - Random ID checks during the con. - T…
If they wanted to eliminate scalping, they could just make the tickets returnable but non-refundable: Put your name on the badge. If you want to sell it, they buy it back at face value minus a restocking fee, and then resell it at original price. This would be much less of a pain in the ass for everyone involved.