Comment on Reselling tickets for profit to be outlawed in UK government crackdown

• FishFace@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I’m sorry, are you complaining that prices are kept artificially low?

  Because I thought the question was about consumer freedom to buy something instead of the expensive ticket, not seller freedom to make as much money as possible.

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  • gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    I’m complaining that resale is exploitative, and that’s very much intentional

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    • FishFace@piefed.social ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      And I’m saying you can just choose not to buy the tickets at that price. That’s the free market in action.

      There are lots of cases where the free market is clearly inappropriate. For example, I can’t just choose not to have basic utilities like water and heating, so there needs to be an appropriately regulated market to prevent price gouging. But if prices get gouged on tickets for Taylor Swift or whatever, then who cares? So only rich people can go to her concert - big deal, people who can’t afford it can:
      * go to a cheaper concert by a less popular artist
      * buy her album for much less
      * stream her album for even less

      What are the consequences if we had this model?

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      • gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        And you think it’s good that bots can automatically buy every single ticket, only to resell it at extortionate prices?

        Wow, that’s a ass-backwards view if I ever saw one

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