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Originally Posted by LukeA
When ~200K (if not far more) people flood Ticketmaster's site at 10AM for, say, a U2 show that seats 18K, its very easy for said show to sell out clean in 5-10 minutes- even if you hypothetically took all the amateur scalpers out of the equation.
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I guess I underestimated the ability of their system to process thousands of transactions so quickly. Still, I wouldn't be surprised if it comes out that they do have a backdoor to scalpers. They could easily sell them blocks at a higher price without the public knowing anything about it.