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disagreement on brokers
In a message dated 02/25/2002 9:58:22 AM Central Standard Time,
TheWho-Digest-Owner@igtc.com writes:
> Concert ticket distribution may be a monopoly, but it is not a necessity.
> There is no need to regulate the brokers. Refer to your first suggestion
> for the solution: If you don't want to pay the price, don't buy the ticket.
>
> Jeff
>
>
It may be true that this isn't "regulatable," but you assertion is flawed.
Tickets to a concert are in demand and are clearly finite in number. The
concert ticket is also trademark and copyright protected. It is illegal to
buy out all stores of a certain CD then go outside and sell it for more than
you paid for it. The power to sell copyrighted material is reserved to the
CD manufacturers and those they choose to sell to. Laws protecting consumers
from such abuses are not anti-capitalism at all. I am not so conservative
that I believe fans should be allowed to be raped by brokers just because
money is changing hands. There is no where else for fans to go but to
ticketmaster or the box office- so when brokers snap these up then mark them
up 100-200%, we obviously have no choice. The best thing to do would be to
organize a national boycott of ticket brokers, but I know a bunch of rich
assholes won't care and will continue to pay ridiculous prices for tix. And
by the way, scalping is illegal in most cities, so a national law isn't that
far-fetched, and would allow the FBI to assist local law enforcement in
reducing the incidences of it.
kevin mc