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> But one of the reasons why you can't get a ticket in the first place, is because scalpers are buying tickets for the simple reason of reselling the ticket for
by josephcsible 4y ago
> But one of the reasons why you can't get a ticket in the first place, is because scalpers are buying tickets for the simple reason of reselling the ticket for a higher price.
But the only reason that scalping is profitable is that more people want to go to these events at the original ticket price than there are seats available.
> If you are going to increase price with demand, at least let it go to the people behind the event/artist in a fair way.
I agree with this. When a show sells out in 5 minutes, the organizers should take note and charge more the next show.
- ChildOfChaos 4y ago> But the only reason that scalping is profitable is that more people want to go to these events at the original ticket price than there are seats available. In general yes, however I have seen plenty of events that didn't sell out and scalpers where left still selling tickets and perhaps some people only knew about sites like ViaGoGo so bought of there. I'm sure times when demand closely matches supply, it's still going to the scalpers because they get in there first.