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Originally Posted by Thomas Anderson
The reason it stops "real" fans getting tickets is purely because these touts buy lots of them up, meaning that fans can't get them in the legitimate sale, and then they can't afford to pay tout prices. I wouldn't pay extra for a ticket if it meant a tout getting a big cut of it. If I couldn't get tickets from a proper ticket seller I'd rather be upset at missing the show than out of pocket from buying from a tout.
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the thing alot (ie most people) don't realise is that touts have these tickets before they've even went on sale. it's not a huge conspiracy but promoters etc... will be getting a kick back, if you wanted to have an envelope with 50 tickets in it for a big gig that'll sell out in no time could you do that? nope yet the touts manage this everytime.... it's not a coincidence. promo tickets, freebies, comp tickets etc.... all go to the touts before we can get our paws on them.
it's not entirely different from game shop staff getting a bunch of playstations before they go on sale to the public and selling them on ebay.
by the same token i've never missed a gig due to not being able to get tickets or not being willing to pay what the touts are asking and i go to a large amount of gigs, if i never usually have problems i don't see why anyone else would except for big one off things like this.