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Most of the shows I go to are those $20-50 ones


and that's more due to my "non-mainstream" taste in music I guess. I personally don't care for many of the "hot stars of the moment." And I have no problem with one person selling their personal tickets. I have a relative who has Duke basketball season tickets, and every year he sells his pair for the UNC game for enough to cover the cost of the whole season for him. (The same person buys them every year. Duke actually tracks down people who scalp their season tickets online and revokes them. Ticket scalping is illegal in NC and a lot of other states, but not online for whatever reason.) But buying up hundreds of tickets electronically and reselling them at artificially inflated prices is not "determining the true value." It's a scam and should be treated as such.

Some of you might have noticed that Nine Inch Nails sold regular old paper tickets for their 2018 US tour. You had to go buy them in person. They also made some available online through a company called Brown Paper Tickets, the "world's first fair-trade ticketing company." I went to a Tom Waits show a few years ago and the good seats were will-call only - you had to pick them up in person and show ID.

(In response to this post by HWA)

Posted: 09/21/2018 at 11:46AM



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  Simple solution -- don't buy the ticket. -- HWA 09/21/2018 09:40AM
  Not surprising -- statmanfromHCyrs 09/21/2018 08:29AM

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