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Message: [QUOTE="Cusefan95, post: 5690948, member: 173"] I don’t think the class action lawsuit and this discussion are related issues in any way. The lawsuits focused on concerts, where Ticketmaster has a monopoly on venues and artists basically have no option but to let Ticketmaster set pricing. Artists have no leverage since they do a concert maybe every other year and for a short period of time. Sports teams have a different business arrangement from artists - the team deals with Ticketmaster in an ongoing partnership so teams have leverage and are involved in setting the prices and price minimums for resale. And it’s hard to see how not letting you sell tickets at a loss bigger than some locked in minimum qualifies as “price gauging”, and there’s still other platforms you can successfully sell on at whatever you want. And they don’t need to advise you of moving price minimums for resale when you buy the tickets, since the expectation is you will use the tickets. This is a weird hill to die on, since your position is basically that you want legislation to mandate teams are forced to make bad business decisions. I’m not sure why you think that will work out to your best interest as a consumer - it’s about eight billion times more likely that they would just ban all resale of tickets on their platform than screw up their algorithm, and you’d just be forced to use other sites. We’re where we are at because technology is able to drive increasing market efficiency for the team. The team does not have any obligation to help you sell tickets you already purchased - you should look at that option on Ticketmaster as generosity on their part (because it is), and be less upset about efficient markets. This is one of the very few areas of our hyper-financialized capitalist system where things are actually getting better for consumers overall and not going through the enshitification process. [/QUOTE]

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