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Could someone please explain to me how it can be legal for a dealer to buy up tickets and then resell for as much as $1250/ticket? Tickets went on sale at 10:00 on Friday for Neil Young tickets and were sold out by the time I tried to buy them at 4:00. But if you go onto Craigslist there are multiple dealers reselling them at ridiculously high prices. Does DPAC not have some way to prevent this from happening so an avid fan like myself can go and buy a couple tickets?
NC had very strong anti-scalping laws until recently (2009?) . Now I believe Internet resale is open ended although street scalping is still limited to value plus $3.
Now you know why concert revenues are down across the industry - people don't try to go to live shows anymore due to scalping and reselling - tickets are too expensive and resellers only make it worse, yet the industry isn't doing much to solve the problem.
This infuriates me. I refuse to buy tickets from a "dealer" online. It's just ... wrong to deny private customers the opportunity to purchase tickets from a local venue, whether that be sports, arts, whatever. It's really gotten out of hand.
Could someone please explain to me how it can be legal for a dealer to buy up tickets and then resell for as much as $1250/ticket? Tickets went on sale at 10:00 on Friday for Neil Young tickets and were sold out by the time I tried to buy them at 4:00. But if you go onto Craigslist there are multiple dealers reselling them at ridiculously high prices. Does DPAC not have some way to prevent this from happening so an avid fan like myself can go and buy a couple tickets?
I know it's too late for this concert, but sign up for the mailing list so that you can purchase pre-sale tickets. That's what I do. And save money by purchasing them at the ticket booth.
I hate scalpers as much as the next guy, but waiting until 4:00 PM when onsale time was 10:00 AM is pretty much killing any chances. Heck, when I buy tickets to Buffett shows, you pretty much have 30 minutes on a slow sale day.
I hate scalpers as much as the next guy, but waiting until 4:00 PM when onsale time was 10:00 AM is pretty much killing any chances. Heck, when I buy tickets to Buffett shows, you pretty much have 30 minutes on a slow sale day.
How exactly would any venue know whether they were selling to someone buying on behalf of a ticket agent or not? It's not like they walk up to the box office and buy 100 floor seats at a time.
And besides, you can usually fleece them by waiting until right before showtime when their tickets are about to become worthless and buy great seats for either cost or below.
Tickets went on sale at 10:00 on Friday for Neil Young tickets and were sold out by the time I tried to buy them at 4:00.
I'm going to have to agree with others and say that you really have to jostle to get tickets. Waiting that long is just asking for disappointment. With the internet and venue size being what it is in the area, you have to be right there at the keyboard when tickets go up for grabs.
There was a concert I wanted to go to recently and it was sold out in about 5 minutes online. I'm not even exaggerating on that.
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