People shouldnt blame scalpers for the reason they cant get good or any seats. The real problem is too high of demand and limited supply. If anything scalpers actually reduce demand by raising the price. Regardless of scalping being present or not the same number of people get tickets.
I also have never been shut out of getting tickets. I got garth tickets, bieber tickets (for a neice), and now munford and sons. I was very surprised there was this level of demand for them.
As for scalping I dont really have an issue with it and it is up to the artist to prevent. The easiest way might be to issue tickets to specific cell phones and only that phone could access the tickets to get scanned. That would reduce lines at venues. I like the fan club based presales like pearl jam has to limit scalping and ensure fans get seats and lower costs. Garth did a terrible job of preventing scalping. He let people by six dirt cheap tickets. It would have been stupid not to get 6. Another option would be to make all tickets will call as it would eliminate all out of town scalpers.
The problem with legislation is that enforcement is not possible and would be a waste of resources. There is negligable societal benefit to getting rid of scalping.
I have scalped tickets in the past, mainly to premium flames games. Now for flames games I dont even see it as scalping anymore as no one wants to pay the season ticket holder price for nashville on Tuesday so why should they face for Edmonton on a Saturday. Average value these days works out to around even.
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