My son and his friends recently tried to get tickets to some kind of comic book or super hero convention.
All tickets were immediately sold out by the venue and were then being sold on Ticket Master for over $500/each. They had to watch the convention on Zoom.
Comic-Con.
The rules are insane.
If you are a season ticket holder and can’t use your tickets for a ballgame, you cannot legally sell them for more than face value.
Ticketmaster can buy up tickets and sell them for whatever they want.
What a scam.
I am grateful that I never felt the need to be a fan of a actor/actress, musician, or athlete. My money and time went to things powered by (gasp!!)... an internal combustion engine. I went to one rock concert, and was not impressed enough to go to any more.
My youngest son became a Bulls/Jordan fan. From age 7 to 13 nearly every cent he got went for that stuff, including price inflated shoes. Then his brother and high school teammates won a state football championship. Suddenly the Bulls/Jordan stuff was mostly shoved into the closet. He would focus on football and with his teammates win two hs football state titles.
When he got his first car, I told him he could have had twice as nice a car if he had saved the money he spent on sports fan stuff (most of it made in chyna).