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Re:The Surreal Story of StubHub Screwing Over a Kobe Fan by michaelt on Thursday January 07, 2016 @12:49PM (#10859447) 

  They have given themselves the ability to make this right
  and go after the seller for the costs of it, but they are
  choosing not to, screwing the buyer instead.
You're right in general, but just to nitpick: If there are only 100 real tickets to an event, and 110 tickets have been promised by StubHub, 10 customers will go without tickets regardless of StubHub's willingness to pay the market rate for extra tickets.
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Re:The Surreal Story of StubHub Screwing Over a Kobe Fan by encoderer on Thursday January 07, 2016 @01:01PM (#10859533)
In practice this is not how markets work. More tickets become available, even if just arb from earlier buyers, as the price increases. And regardless it's not what happened here.
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