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Originally Posted by Moses
Why should tickets be sold to you or anyone else for less than market value?
Ticket brokers add market efficiency.
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I have no problem paying market value. But the brokers don't pay any more than face value for the tix. Why should they get them before anyone else, especially when TM advertises that you can go online at X o'clock and get your tix?
If, just before and after a hurricane, Home Depot and Lowe's
did not raise the price of generators, but rather sold them all to scalpers, there'd be a near civil war. I'm perfectly willing to pay market value. But don't call yourself a retail business open to the public if you're really a wholesaler who won't sell or will barely sell to the general public.
As it is, I'm perfectly happy to buy my tix in the parking lot as the first song is starting and the brokers' monkeys are sweating. I have almost never bought tix before the day of the show, almost never been more than seven rows back from the stage and have never paid over face value.