Tickets for events necessarily have a limited supply.
If demand exceeds supply, price goes up.
The box offices keep the face value prices of the tickets lower than what the market will bear.
Therefore, someone will always step in to arbitrate and collect the margin.
Even if Ticketmaster were destroyed, it would not have any impact on scalping.
The only way to stop this from happening is for the face value of high demand tickets to rise greatly.
For example, you could sell tickets with a dutch auction.
That doesn't really respond to cushpush, who is proposing that resold tickets shouldn't be honored by the venue.
Are you suggesting there is no valid use case for reselling tickets other than scalping? (I am unable to make it to an event today for which I bought tickets due to an unforeseen circumstance). Do you propose that my ticket has to go to waste?
I'm suggesting that cushpush specifically indicated that venues should prevent any and all resale of tickets, and the comment I responded to purported to respond to cushpush in a way that was a total and complete non sequitur.
Scalping is something that the artists and ticket sellers specifically enable. If there's a name on each ticket you can't resell it.
Because venues have an hour and a half to let in 18,000 people.