I get how STHs may want to sell playoff tickets at a profit to offset losses from regular season games that they couldn't go to and had to sell at a loss. But I am quite concerned that if there is profit to be made by posting tickets here, regular posters may find that their tickets are lost in a sea of tickets posted by commercial for-profit resellers.
You may gather from my posts on this thread that I have an axe to grind here, and you would be right. I think that Ticketmaster and its subsidiary StubHub are evil monopolistic companies that artificially inflate the prices of tickets, preventing many fans from attending events while at the same time preventing artists from benefiting from tickets that sell for three times the list price. The technology exists for Ticketmaster to prevent bots from purchasing all of the tickets for an event the moment they go on sale, but they choose not to do this, because when those bots list the tickets on its subsidiary StubHub, Ticketmaster profits from selling them a second time and charging its exorbitant fees twice.
If there's anything we as fans can do to limit StubHub's dominance of the marketplace, we should do it, to try to break up this ticket monopoly.
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