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They do provide value to those people who buy their tickets. Like uber 10x surge they guarantee inventory during tight supply but you goina pay!!

• Dylan16807 10y ago
  There is no value in having a middleman in that process. They actually make it harder for ticket buyer and ticket seller to meet, unlike your typical middleman. Uber is a perfect example of why no middleman is needed.
  • pitt1980 10y ago
    I'm not actually sure that there's that big a markup over all the tickets sold Most of the big mark up tickets are bought from season ticket packages, which include plenty of dud games that can only be resold at a loss Averaged over all the games, whatever markup realize can probably be accounted for as taking risk of not selling tickets off the primary sellers (the teams) (especially the hard to sell games on Wednesdays in January when the team isn't the best team in the league)
• icebraining 10y ago
  The idea of surge pricing is actually to convince more drivers to take rides, increasing the supply, unlike these resellers.
  • tamana 10y ago
    That's only half the idea. High prices induce ticket holders to sell, which does free up supply.