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Re:Why Scalpers Can Get Olivia Rodrigo Tickets and You Can't by supportengineer on Saturday September 23, 2023 @06:22PM (#37628091)
Rolex has the exact same problem.
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Re:Why Scalpers Can Get Olivia Rodrigo Tickets and You Can't by bbreier on Saturday September 23, 2023 @06:47PM (#37628289)
Rolex actively engineers this situation, though
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Re:Why Scalpers Can Get Olivia Rodrigo Tickets and You Can't by TeMPOraL on Sunday September 24, 2023 @05:31AM (#37631490)
Apparently so do artists and Ticketmaster.

This seems to be a general rule: if some problem is annoying to people with money and clout, and it persists for long, then perhaps it's not actually a problem for those people, but rather a money maker they perpetuate.

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