Yeah, they are scalping their own tickets. Ticketmaster is, and always has been, shady.
Like...they had a class action suit. I got an email ... maybe 2 years ago...saying that they had over-charged everyone on service charges and I would be getting an automatic refund the following April for up to 5 tickets purchased during that time (not the whole price--but just the service charge).
Good thing I didn't hold my breath, because...never saw a dime.
And, for all the self-congratulatory stuff going on...there is no way some of these venues have sold out. Or even sold out sections. They hold onto tickets hoping to get better prices through their own scalping or ... I'm pretty sure...through other brokers. Those tickets eventually find their way back to ticketmaster's regular sales.
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