• Warl0k3@lemmy.world
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    4 days 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…

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

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        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

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          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.