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> Pudding wrote:
> > There's no doubt that a lot of his shows are sold out, but
> > it has always annoyed me when it's declared a show is SOLD
> > OUT onlt for a week later a couple hundred tickets are
> > found. This isn't just Meat btw, but in general.
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> I have found in the United States where I know of such a
> thing as Ticket Brokers, that tickets are artificially
> sold out by virtue of these legalized scalpers taking up
> thousands of them. When the demand they need (they jack up
> prices maybe sometimes ten times of the ticket price) they
> might decide to work a backroom deal to put those tickets
> back on sale in the proper channels. Even if someone's
> Aunt Belinda (I hope you don't actually have an Aunt
> Belinda) is singing at the neighborhood concert hall, the
> legalized scalpers (not really, because who cares about
> Auntie Belinda, but this is an example) could consume all
> of the seats for their own resales to markup ticket
> buyers. Then, look, more tiks are available for Auntie's
> show after all!
Joe Kennedy is the Patron Saint of Scalpers.
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