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Online 'Corporate Scalping' Makes Tickets Harder to Come By

It wasn't all that long ago that getting the hot ticket meant waiting in line for hours (or days) outside of your local Ticketmaster affiliate, all the while exchanging tales of geeky fan appreciation with other would-be concert attendees. These days, everyone's just a click away from the show of a lifetime -- and a click away from exorbitant prices, thanks to many scalping laws having been ...

Ticketmaster Scalping Its Own Tickets on Secondary Web Sites

Giving us yet another reason to hate Ticketmaster, the company revealed that it has been scalping tickets through its secondary TicketExchange and TicketsNow Web sites. Designed as a means for fans to sell tickets they've already purchased, Ticketmaster senior vice president for legal affairs Joseph Freeman told the Wall Street Journal that TicketExchange and TicketsNow "only rarely list tickets ...