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"Consumer harm" from monopolists is very much a trailing indicator. Organizations that have even a smidge of sense will put that off for a long time as they acc
by neallindsay 4y ago
"Consumer harm" from monopolists is very much a trailing indicator. Organizations that have even a smidge of sense will put that off for a long time as they accumulate power. Having all your regulation set up to wait until that point is bad policy.
That said, Ticketmaster has been terrible forever. It's baffling how they've gotten this far while being so blatantly bad.
- mikestew 4y agoThat said, Ticketmaster has been terrible forever. That's not true. Granted, one would have to go back at least 35 years, but there was a time that TicketMaster was just the outsource vendor to sell tickets. They'd tack on a few bucks for the privilege, sorted. Don't like it? Go to the box office. I don't recall having any reason to complain. But that's the trick: no one had reason to complain, and more and more venues used TM while TM gobbled up competitors. Now that there is reason to complain, it's apparently too late.