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Tex100 said:

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Concerts are similar. Artists don't want to price out a large segment of their audience because they may risk losing them. Even if there are limited tickets and not every fan can get them, having a chance is more appealing than being priced out, so they're not going to be resentful if they can't get tickets. Price them out and they may buy less merch and listen to less of your music, weakening your branding ties, popularity, and potentially future tour and album sales.

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There is some natural market cap for concerts due to price.

Last year around Christmas, the wife and I saw Robert Earl Keen at Houston House of Blues and bought GA tix.

This year, we were planning to go again but the wife wants to sit down so I'm looking at balcony tickets. They went on sale at $130 or so but are now $450.

Simple solution is - we're not going. No way is REK worth $900+ for two tickets when I've already seen him a few times and even got to meet him at the old House of Blues on Sunset in LA. I enjoy his shows but not at that price.

On the other hand, if REK started his ticket sales at $450/seat, there's probably no way anybody is buying those.

2 weeks ago, I bought tickets for Rush next summer at $400/seat. The only way that worked was because I got in on the Citi presale. Those same seats are now going for $600-$700/seat.

Of course the other question is, are those real resellers or is that Ticketmaster trying to artificially drive up the price.

Yes, it is a problem but... is government intervention required?

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How can it be Rush without the original drummer?

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The original drummer died back in 2008
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rutsey

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. That is my point. Without Neal Pert it isn't Rush. But you are paying a substantial price to see the other two guys and maybe a Neal Pert protege.

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Her name is Anika Nilles and she's pretty damn good. And yes she was a protege of Peart and in fact worked as his drum tech briefly I understand. Some of the rehearsal sessions are on YouTube. According to original Rush members Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson, she was chosen because of her technical skill and her ability to respect Neil's legacy while bringing her own voice

At some point the market will prevail and some bots get stuck with tickets. If not then they were priced too low to begin with.

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I have sugar bowl tickets and have for three years always in the 6th deck and trying to move up or down in this case. Guess what this year I moved down to the first deck. Why and here is your simple solution- the sugar bowl instituted Id.me and ticket holders had to proof who they were through a government website. This eliminated massive bots in their system. Due to this Id check I moved down to the first deck.

I asked how many bots they had and they said a lot.

I know the peach bowl is doing this Id.me thing as well.

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Verifying buyers is a completely different topic (though one ripe with a opinion as well - we need a government website to confirm whether we can buy tickets now?).

But for that you can make a case that "know your customer" is good for everyone except the scalpers.

The issue is resale percentage caps and transferability laws. You are giving one entity complete control over not just the price and availability of tickets, but also what you can do with them once you purchase them.

How would you feel if something came up and you could no longer attend the Sugar Bowl -- but Ticketmaster deemed it a non-transferable event so you were stuck eating the tickets?

Or how about they play smoke and mirrors and offer "face value ticket exchange" -- but the Sugar Bowl matchup ends up being Boise State vs South Florida? You have a $300 first deck ticket, and you'd be happy just getting $150 for your ticket... Sorry! Face value ticket exchange only. You can only list your ticket for the $300 you paid for it.

Oh and guess what? 2 weeks before the game Ticketmaster sees the lack of demand and slashes lower level inventory to $100 face... So now anyone can buy at $100 and your tickets sit there at $300 because you can't go below your "face".

You're being duped. These laws aren't good for consumers.

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I've always been amazed at people upset with ticket scalping. If OP thinks scalping is cheating the buyer, you should buy the best Aggie season tickets you can afford and try to make a profit on them. That includes the years we go 5-7 and the games we play against Sam Houston and Appellation State.

When a willing buyer and seller agree on a price, who gets hurt? That's called capitalism.

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I bought A&M season tickets for about 30 years before stopping in 2016. The cost of minimum donation increased every year irrespective of the downward trend in quality and my loyalty to the program through the malaise. That was a clear indication to me A&M just saw me as a revenue stream, and I finally decided, like a recovering addict, to kick the habit. It was liberating. But if A&M only cares about money, I have no problem with season tickets holders maximizing the return on their own tickets.

Affordable Entertainment Act is clearly needed!

Maybe when when of the Obama girls is president we will get Universal Ticket Coverage.

Wait until the board find out Indians, Chinese, and Russian bot farms are scalping the **** out of their favorite events.

Seriously - the simple obvious answer is stop going. As long as the demand is high, prices will follow.

Same for the Pokmon problem - recognize you are just being manipulated and stop. Let them become the next beanie babies.

It sickens me to see people with no retirement and no savings for kids education and no emergency funds leverage themselves to fly across the country to watch an NFL game or see their 9th Taylor Swift concert. If they want to be stupid and someone is taking advantage of it, it's no skin off my back.