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You can usually transfer or resell those tickets on TM.

It just requires you to stay in their system instead of selling (taking a screenshot of the code) elsewhere.

If they locked the ticket to your name, that would actually block the scalpers but they don’t.

By forcing you to stay in their system it makes it easy to identify scalpers by account behaviour. No need to pin tickets to your name, just bring down the banhammer on accounts with suspicious activity.

there's also a feature in the ticket master app to just send the tickets to someone digitally so you can still sell them other ways. /i just got rid of a spare ticket i had on cash or trade.

edit to add: my friend couldn't make the concert, I'm not a scalper!

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