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I made software 15 years ago to automatically buy concert and sports tickets from Ticketmaster and other websites. At the moment tickets went on sale we used hu

I made software 15 years ago to automatically buy concert and sports tickets from Ticketmaster and other websites. At the moment tickets went on sale we used hundreds of computers to buy up the good tickets. I'm sorry your daughter didn't get Nsync tickets.

aidos 8y ago
Wasn’t there a big case about that?
CPUstring 8y ago
That's just arbitrage, right? If you're able to sell them at higher prices, the venue should've done it themselves.
- sincerely 8y ago
  I mean, without scraping, it basically comes down to whether or not you care enough about the event to be online refreshing the page at exactly 10 AM or whatever. with scraping it becomes about whether you have more money. some artists prefer the audience be more of the former and less of the latter
godelski 8y ago
There was a Freakanomics episode about this. http://freakonomics.com/podcast/live-event-ticket-market-screwed/ http://freakonomics.com/podcast/live-event-ticket-market-scr...