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QuiGon said:Set aside the legality of scalping and answer me this: Why does it "piss you off" that Chicago-NE tickets sell for what people are willing to pay...? Where's the logic in getting mad at the free enterprise system at work...?
"People are willing to pay?"
Nobody in their right mind would pay $500 for a 300-level seat to a regular season game. The only reason they do is because those are the only seats left (thanks to the scalpers).
It pisses off the consumer when buying the tickets legally costs face value - $49-$125, but buying them from illegal dealers costs $250-$1500. Insane. When one is able to purchase tickets directly the week of the game for face value through Ticketmaster or the TicketExchange, but there's another outlet on the Internet that is selling hundreds of tickets that could be face-value, that pisses the consumer off.
It should piss the Patriots off as well. These scalpers are making money off the Patriots, but there's nothing the team can do about it. The scalpers, by charging absurd amounts for the tickets just because they can, are driving up the market price. But to keep up with that inflation, the Pats would need to obviously make face value the market price of $300 or so. And that would easily piss off the fans, whose incomes aren't keeping up with the amount the tickets are being re-sold for. Through that, the Patriots are losing money and have a right to be pissed off. They're being forced to charge below market price to keep good relations with fans.