Comment by orangecat
3 days ago
A lot of people like going to live music and theatre events and scalpers make it more difficult and more expensive for them
Scalpers make it possible to get a ticket at market price, instead of maybe being able to get it for less and maybe not being able to get it at any price. It's not at all clear that the latter is better.
The "market price" you're talking about, is set by how many scalpers are creating scarcity. If the number of scalpers is 0, then the "market price" is different. It becomes the price that both the vendor is willing to sell for, and the event visitor is willing to buy for. Which is a more desirable "market price" to achieve.
The only thing scalpers make possible, is pricing out people that the vendor wanted to sell tickets to.
Scalpers are the primary reason it’s practically impossible to get a ticket at face price in the first place
The only way that could possibly be true is if the price the scalpers charged was the face price they had to pay.
In that world, there wouldn't be scalpers.
Are you unaware that scalpers are set up to hoover up as many tickets as possible before an actual person that wants to visit the event can get one? Because it seems like you are?
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