How do scalpers actually get all the tickets faster than the average consumer?
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Ticketmaster actively works with scalpers.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/suit-alleges-ticketmaster-broke-anti-scalping-law-1.368576
Bots.
My buddy had a bot that would go out to Walmart, Amazon, Playstation, and Target and check every second for PlayStation 5 stock. When it detected it, it would automatically load it in his cart, automatically use his card, and purchase it.
He got about 50 PS5’s over the course of the first month they were released. It’s pretty much how me, and my entire group of friends got them.
A big part of Ticketmaster’s business model is making sure scalpers get many of the most desired tickets. They sell the scalper a ticket for $100 and collect a fat fee. Scalper then sells the ticket for 3x the price through one of Ticketmaster’s sites and collects a fee 3x as big on that sale. The artist is in on the scam and gets a cut without having to look like they’re the one gouging their fans.
Why can’t an artist make it so the first and last name have to match the ticket holder upon entrance? Similar to how airline tickets work? That would solve all of this
My question is do these scalpers that use bots have hundreds of different credit cards?
Couldn’t some of this be mitigated by 2 tickets per credit card?
How do they get all the codes for the presale? Hundreds of bots signing up? How do the bypass Ticketmaster Verified part?
My brother in college used to have his fraternity run a scalping operation. After the bars closed the young dudes in his fraternity would go wait in line. He would buy the maximum number of tickets for his fraternity.
ELI5: How does Ticketmaster screw the consumer over more than the consumer actually realizes?
This is why I’d rather spend my money on swag/merchandise of my favorite bands, than actually give TM my money to see them play live.
I am here to complain that I bought tickets to a concert for $500 thinking I got a deal for great seats and the people behind me spent $200
I know there’s newer tricks, but in the old days they’d hire homeless people to go stand in line. I worked ticket lines a few times and you could tell that sometimes up to half of the “customers” would be buying as many tickets as was allowed and then handing them over to some ~~scumbag~~ ticket broker, who would pay them back the amount they spent, plus enough to buy whatever the homeless person negotiated. We had rules of course — couldn’t hand money to people in line, couldn’t break out of the line for any reason — but if you had enough connections to the local homeless community, you could probably buy a significant chunk of the tickets.
They program (unless purchased from someone else) macros or bots to buy them the split second they come out so the whole transaction is done in one shot instead of manually entering everything at the same time as thousands of people
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