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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 184265" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>That happened here too when Hannah Montana tickets (supposedly) went on sale. Anxious parents called or went online as soon as tickets were supposed to be on sale ... only to find that it was already sold out! There were NO tickets available. Of course, they had all been bought up by ticket brokers <em>before</em> they were to go on sale to the general public! Then they resell the tickets, sometimes for thousands of dollars or whatever silly people are willing to pay on eBay. You would think the performers themselves would have something to say about it because they sometimes take the blame for the outrageous ticket prices. But they aren't the ones making the huge profits, the ticket brokers are! Why do they allow that to happen? I don't understand why it's not illegal.</p><p> </p><p>I have been to many, many major league baseball games. And if the game is sold out, and sometimes even if it isn't, there will always be people approaching you in the streets asking if you have any extra tickets to sell. And sometimes I have had extras if someone couldn't make it to the game as planned. It is perfectly legal to resell your ticket ... for FACE VALUE, but to try to sell it for more than face value is scalping. It's illegal and you could be arrested for doing it! In St. Louis they have plain clothes police officers mingling in the crowds - you never know if that person asking if you have extra tickets to sell is just a fan wanting to see the game, if they are a scalper who will resell the ticket for profit, or if they're a police officer who will arrest you if you try to jack the price up above face value!</p><p> </p><p>So what the ticket brokers are doing is wholesale scalping on a gigantic scale. Why is this legal? I just don't understand.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 184265, member: 1883"] That happened here too when Hannah Montana tickets (supposedly) went on sale. Anxious parents called or went online as soon as tickets were supposed to be on sale ... only to find that it was already sold out! There were NO tickets available. Of course, they had all been bought up by ticket brokers [I]before[/I] they were to go on sale to the general public! Then they resell the tickets, sometimes for thousands of dollars or whatever silly people are willing to pay on eBay. You would think the performers themselves would have something to say about it because they sometimes take the blame for the outrageous ticket prices. But they aren't the ones making the huge profits, the ticket brokers are! Why do they allow that to happen? I don't understand why it's not illegal. I have been to many, many major league baseball games. And if the game is sold out, and sometimes even if it isn't, there will always be people approaching you in the streets asking if you have any extra tickets to sell. And sometimes I have had extras if someone couldn't make it to the game as planned. It is perfectly legal to resell your ticket ... for FACE VALUE, but to try to sell it for more than face value is scalping. It's illegal and you could be arrested for doing it! In St. Louis they have plain clothes police officers mingling in the crowds - you never know if that person asking if you have extra tickets to sell is just a fan wanting to see the game, if they are a scalper who will resell the ticket for profit, or if they're a police officer who will arrest you if you try to jack the price up above face value! So what the ticket brokers are doing is wholesale scalping on a gigantic scale. Why is this legal? I just don't understand. [/QUOTE]
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