Comment on Scalper economy

• HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Would thry?

  The ticket seller doesn’t care if there’s an empty hall, he got paid early on.

  You’re hoping that the scalpers don’t get enough return to be able to justify continuing to play their role.

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  • killingspark@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    You’re hoping that the scalpers don’t get enough return to be able to justify continuing to play their role.

    Yes, that’s what “If we all collectively agreed to not buy from scalpers” would achieve. I get that that isn’t going to happen but it is still our collective fault.

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• Aceticon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  That “solution” suffers from the problem that requiring hundreds of thousands or even millions of people to get informed about and agree to do something is incredibly more hard than it is for a few tens of people or maybe a couple hundred to as individuals swarm the sales venues and take all the tickets to resell them for more money.

  Or putting things another way, it’s a mountain to climb for large numbers of people to organise and stop scalpers (and that, only for a while), whilst in the current commercial environment scalpers appearing is a natural outcome.

  This kind of thing usually requires changing the structures that make scalping so easy, rather than hoping that somehow (magic?) hundreds of thousands or miliions of people agree to do something.

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  • killingspark@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m all for changing the structures that enable scalpers in the first place but that too requires agreement and action of many many people. So if we can’t even do that for something relatively small like tickets to concerts I doubt we’ll be able to change the system in general

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• CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If we all collectively agreed…

  Gestures broadly

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  • killingspark@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I mean, yeah but have you seen…

    Gestures broadly

    … The state of things? We need to stand up as a people

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    • CileTheSane@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      In the most recent US election one of the candidates ran on a platform of “being a dictator Day 1” and a third of Americans didn’t bother to vote at all while another third happily voted for the wannabe dictator.

      I do not have any faith in a large number of humans collectively working together for a better ideal.

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      • killingspark@feddit.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        Didn’t say I do have that faith. Just saying what I think would be necessary for large scale positive change.

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