re: Houston livestock show rodeo website antics - concerts all sold out

i dunno, between volunteers getting season tickets and every company in town having dozens and dozens of tickets, i'm shocked they have any to sell the public.

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artist, yes. TM and venue, no.

there are artist presales. venue presales, various other presales, then TM general sale. of those entities, only the artist stands to gain by inflated face ticket pricing

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Agreements between TM, the venue (TM-affiliated) and the artist include allocations of premium tickets to each of the three entities. Those presales and onsales don’t contain an exhaustive inventory of tickets available for a given event. Many (hundreds, sometimes thousands) of tickets are held back for “verified resale”.

Ticketmaster didn’t always have the “verified resale” option. They created it years ago and got into the scalping business. That plus the addition of dynamic pricing have made buying TM tickets unbearable for consumers. There’s no chance that they created that solely for the benefit of the artist. They directly benefit from the inflated “verified resale” prices just as much, if not more, than the artist.