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Originally Posted by CFrance
Reread the OP's post. He was on the proper web site when ticket sales were supposed to start, only to find that 80% of the seats were already sold. He went to another site to find tickets, only to find that they were grossly overpriced.
It's obvious there is a bot that snapped up most of the tickets in order to resale them at a higher price, as is explained in subsequent posts. Also explained is a way TV can put in place a means to stop that.
I don't think TV is doing this intentionally. I just think they need a better IT person to put these technological stops in place.
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The Sharon mgmt has chosen to contract with a third party online ticket sales organization to "sell" tickets for the shows at The Sharon. As most entertaiment venues are now doing.
There are several well known online sites that handle the majority of entertainment ticket sales. They certainly have the technical capability to prevent the "mass" purchasing of event tickets. However it must not be in these online ticket fulfillment sites to take the necessary steps to do so. Just follow the money. Would you rather collect a service fee or resell sold-out tickets at 3+ original price? Why not even do both?
Don