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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 7 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Wouldn't it be fun if the scalpers would end up with loads of unsold tickets?

[–] givesomefucks@lemmy.world 10 points 5 days ago

If they get resold 5 times, that's four scalpers making money and one losing...

That's not gonna solve the problem, especially since Ticketmaster offers up tickets early to large volume buyers and even reserves huge blocks for them.

Ticketmaster doesn't give a fuck what the person who sits there actually paid or if the seat is empty

Because everytime it resells, they get the same percentage of an ever growing number.

The product is ticket sales, so they sell the same ticket as many times as they can.

Empty seats won't solve anything. And if it keeps happening it'll end up like airplanes where they just sell someone else a new ticket at a discount and profit off the seat again.

We need to actually fix it, and not just for the Cup