http://dailyorange.com/2012/10/to-the-highest-bidder-from-the-streets-to-computer-screens-ticket-scalping-adapts-to-digital-age/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=to-the-highest-bidder-from-the-streets-to-computer-screens-ticket-scalping-adapts-to-digital-age The Independent Student Newspaper of Syracuse, New York Fri, 24 May 2013 16:51:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://dailyorange.com/2012/10/to-the-highest-bidder-from-the-streets-to-computer-screens-ticket-scalping-adapts-to-digital-age/#comment-294 Jonathan Nightingale Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:32:00 +0000 http://64.207.177.138:7080/?p=39647#comment-294 This is ridiculous, because faculty and students and alumni and scalpers get first dibs on tickets and then turn around and resell them. By the time they’re available to the public there aren’t any available through legitimate means and we have to resort to StubHub and other such criminal enterprises to get them. The question is, is the ticket an actual commodity to buy and sell or is it simply a token, verifying you bought access, where, like today’s digital media downloads, you have no resell license? I mean, why buy it if you are just going to be a jerk and resell it in seconds? If its all “free market” lets open up a real ticket exchange, and lets investigate anti competitive activities. Lets get the SEC to look into this. Otherwise, don’t buy it if you don’t want it.

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