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[-] Warl0k3@lemmy.world 24 points 3 months ago

Lucky fans and some season-ticket holders got final tickets at face value or a discount. They told WRAL that their tickets were between $170 and $500, but they’re reselling at much, much more.

So it seems like this is due to scalpers - who are ruining absolutely everything unfortunately. Fucking dickheads...

[-] ech@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 months ago

Too many people decided during lockdowns that scalping was big money, and it's been atrocious ever since.

[-] FatVegan@leminal.space 4 points 3 months ago

It has been pretty damn shit way before covid. I remember back in 2010 ish where i wanted to go to a concert and the tickets sold out 0.2 nanoseconds after being available. I went then for like 20 bucks, because no one showed up and they sold tickets at a massive loss

[-] SparroHawc@lemmy.zip 2 points 3 months ago

Ticketmaster was teaching people at conferences how to set up buyer bots to suck up all the tickets for scalping, because Ticketmaster gets a cut every time a resale happens as well as the initial sale. That's why it got so bad.

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