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Because money, the original ticket sale company like ticketmaster make money by selling out (scalper buying the tickets).


Ticketmaster is actually in bed with the scalpers [1]. Not only they make money because of the original sale to the scalpers, it seems they also get a second commission when a consumer buys from the scalper to "verify" the sale.

[1] https://www.thestar.com/news/investigations/2018/09/19/we-we...




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