Reply to "Rolling Stone article: Inside Bruce Springsteen and Taylor Swift's War on Scalpers, Ticket Bots"

pedrojunkieTougher Than The Rest

Ticketmaster doesn't actually want to stop scalpers, they only want to pretend they do for the Hot-ticket big name acts. Scalpers are a customer of Ticketmaster, they are paying full price for the tickets and for every Springsteen on Broadway ticket that sells out in seconds and commands big money, there are about a dozen medium/smaller acts that scalpers get stuck with tickets that were not going to be sold.

I'd imagine ticketmaster's revenue would drop by a not so insignificant margin if scalpers were taken out of the game.

9/16/173:31 PM

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