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Is this...? (lemmy.world)
submitted 5 months ago by to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.ca
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[–] 11 points 5 months ago (2 children)

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

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  • [–] 4 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    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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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    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.

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