If you read the linked article above, the one that included this:
Though there are a number of factors involved in this price creep (including high fees, which a 2018 Government Accountability Office report says make up an average of 27 percent of the ticket’s total cost), **the heart of the matter is simple: demand. **
The one that talks about bots crashing websites and resellers gaming the system? Feels like you missed most of the point and took one sentence out of context. It is not regular people wanting tickets.
You do know that Ticketmaster encourages, or at the very least does nothing to stop these bots and scalpers. Hell, they even facilitate this on their own sites. With a service fee at every turn, they make these fees multiple times on any given ticket when resold.
Fuck ticketmaster and I hope their monopoly gets broken.
If you read the linked article above, the one that included this:
Then yes, we read the same article.
The one that talks about bots crashing websites and resellers gaming the system? Feels like you missed most of the point and took one sentence out of context. It is not regular people wanting tickets.
You do know that Ticketmaster encourages, or at the very least does nothing to stop these bots and scalpers. Hell, they even facilitate this on their own sites. With a service fee at every turn, they make these fees multiple times on any given ticket when resold.
Fuck ticketmaster and I hope their monopoly gets broken.