How do scalpers actually get all the tickets faster than the average consumer?
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I did ticket brokering for years until it went to 13 year old kids in South Korea or some other foreign country developing software that would allow you to get in before everyone else but would cost over $100,000 for the software. That’s when I got out. But of what I knew before that, one of the main contingencies of the tickets is who’s going to get some before they even go on sale to the general public. The bands Fan Club would get a block of tickets set aside for them. The band’s manager would come in and set aside some for the bands friends and family as would their record label people (typically called Production Seats). Sometimes Ticket Brokers would come in too and buy a big block of tickets for themselves that were usually paid for at an extra cost, knowing that they were for resale purposes. Then Ticketmaster would take all the rest. They of course would be great seats and were made a deal w the bands manager to upgrade a bunch of the best seats to be sold as PLATINUM tickets. The bands make a cut off these tickets, in many cases. Since bands make very little money off of album sales, they now make a bigger cut of money off their ticket sales.
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