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Originally Posted by afc wimbledon
No one has bought up all of anything, scalpers, with the absolute collusion of the promoters, buy up 1/3 or so, the third they buy is insurance for the promoter, which is probably why they don't do a thing to stop it.
There are many many more important items I have to buy every day that are effectively controlled by near monopolies real estate gasoline, milk.
At least concert tickets arnt a necessity.
Scalpers buy a share in a concert effectively, it's utterly the same as buying a stock in a company, neither of them do a damn thing to improve the product, they both just speculate on the potential increase in value, you and I have to pay more for our purchases so that the shareholders can get their dividend, it's completely the same as a scalper. It is all, as Marx put it, fictitious capital.
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Seeing as I'm good friends with a very successful concert promoter please show me where they work with scalpers. You are assuming that scalpers are not using bots or other methods to get tickets. This would be comparable to insider trading on the stock market.......
If you think a concert promoter and a band want scalpers then you really have zero idea about what goes on.