I mean from an economics standpoint if people are willing to pay higher prices on tickets being resold then they are underpriced. The price people are willing to pay is the “true” value of the thing. Personally I think concerts are too expensive even at list prices but artists are consistently selling out venues at these prices and even higher because people are paying more for tickets on secondary markets. Obviously there are people for whom seeing Taylor Swift is actually worth over a thousand dollars, and to be honest, if that’s how much it is worth to them there’s not much you can do to stop them from going, and I’m not sure I even want to. I might go see Taylor Swift for $40 a ticket just for the experience but is that really worth denying it to some super fan willing to pay 10x that? I won’t get nearly as much from the experience as they will, and it’s obviously not worth it to me.
Your economics argument assumes competition where there is none. Alas, it is unsound.
That’s kinda bullshit though. There are plenty of cheap, and free concerts. There are other options, one company does not own every event venue in the country.
It’s like claiming Nabisco has a monopoly on cookies cause you can only buy ‘Oreos’ from the Nabisco company. Just buy a different cookie!
I am not assuming competition. The fact of the matter is that people are paying these prices for tickets regardless of who is selling them. Nobody needs to go see Taylor Swift to live (in spite of how some people feel) and yet they are still shelling out for these absurd markups on resale tickets. That’s what I am saying here. People are willing to pay what these tickets are being sold for, so that is their value.
That is their value to some people. If they price every ticket at the highest price a ticket sold for they will mostly have unsold tickets and will lose a huge amount of money. Venues and artists benefit from full arenas because they make money from selling other things so they already have an incentive not to price tickets too high.
The other thing they could do is use dynamic pricing.
This is completely irrelevant to the discussion because nobody mentioned selling all the tickets for the same price or selling them all at the highest price anyone would be willing to pay.
So, I think we, as a seaciety, need to start waluigiing ceos.
If to Luigi someone is to kill them, then to waluigi someone must mean that we create someone. As life is the opposite of death, so too is waluigi the opposite of Luigi.
Therefore, it is time we start impregnating the wives of CEOs.
