[TankerKC]

Let’s just break it right down to where this started. No one has to pay excessive prices for luxury items, if they don’t want to.

Is that true, or not?

[frankiep]

Of course they don’t. No one HAS to do anything.

What I am saying is that scalpers are first taking advantage of buyers by artifically shrinking the supply of tickets and then raising the prices, and are taking advantage of the performers by profiting off of their work. This is why it is illegal in many places and why much stronger measures are being taken to prevent it.