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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!
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> Joe Kennedy is the Patron Saint of Scalpers.
That seems to explain alot.
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