[SirFishalot]

It has everything to do with the rights of the performers who obviously don’t want tickets to their events to be priced so that only people with alot of money can afford to see them, thus alienating a large part of their audience. It’s how they wish to market themselves and their product (talent) and is the reason why they contract vendors to sell tickets at a certain price.

Actually, concert ticket prices are set the same way that any other retail product is priced. Their ultimate goal is to sell out all venues at the highest price that the market will bear. Normally, a tour needs to sell close to 90% of the seats in order to break even.

[Disturbin]

If they TRULY wanted to prevent so-called scalping, they would only sell tickets once you are inside the door.

As long as you have an outside ticket booth, and allow online and other methods of ticket sales, there will be scalping.

I tried to get tickets to two shows this summer, both of which were sold out within one minute of ticketmaster’s announced sale time. I don’t feel like paying one of these pro resale outfits, so I won’t go.