Buy tickets you know will sell out immediately (concerts, sports events etc) and then sell them online a few weeks before the event.
At one point in uni, my roommate and I had half our dorm logging into Ticketmaster at 10am every Saturday as that is when the big shows got released.
Best spread I ever got was for some Red Hot Chili Peppers floor tix at Madison Square Gardens. Some guy paid an absolute fortune for them a week before the concert. Iām sure it was an inconsequential amount for him.
Disclaimer: not sure what the laws are like in the UK for this.
Not a fan of ticket touting, although to be honest most of the gigs I go to arenāt popular enough to sell out that quick so itās not usually a problem for me.
It can be annoying when you try to get tickets for a big gig and you have to be on the page hitting refresh as if it was a Freetrade crowdfunding round
It became more of a problem because they developed bots to buy a lot of tickets instantly, so fans get exploited and need to pay more than the price the artist wanted them to pay
I find it hilarious that people call reselling event tickets immoral. Somehow tickets have special status vs every other good? I havenāt done it since university, but I can tell you it was a lot of work, and a fair bit of financial risk, doubt that has changed.
Austenās example was of selling tickets that had gone unsold. Austen put in work to find buyers for the tickets. People got to see the event last minute at reasonable prices. So youāre right, not all ticket reselling is immoral.
Preventing people from buying tickets at reasonable prices by being faster than them at buying or using some technological advantage they canāt match, and then reselling those tickets at greatly inflated prices is deeply immoral. I find it both sad and disturbing you donāt understand that.
If you had the money to buy all the medicine that treats a particular disease (or could buy a controlling interest in the drug company that makes the only cureā¦), do you understand that it is reprehensible to then resell that medicine at 10 times the original cost?
Itās a direct analogy to help see why the former is immoral. Yes the consequences of ticket touting are far less severe than what some drug companies have done, but the thinking behind those actions is the same.