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Proposal in Oz to outlaw scalping

Anti-scalping laws are anti-consumer, not pro-consumer. They only serve to protect the ticket agents, who want everyone standing in THEIR lines instead of fans having a chance to see a show that is sold out. Just look at what they say:

"Ticket retailer BASS, Adelaide Festival Centre and the Entertainment Centre said they supported anti-scalping laws.

"We would support any changes to legislation that would reduce the risk to the consumer," Adelaide Festival Centre and BASS chief executive Kate Brennan said.

Yeah, right. "Protect the consumer!" Counterfeit tickets are stealing. We don't stop currency because of the possibility someone could get a counterfeit or shut down secondhand bookstores because it might sell a forgery. Come on, be real. I could not get good tickets for Kylie's UK shows so I will have to go over there from the US and pray that I can get seats from scalpers outside the venues or on eBay. Scalpers, just like stock brokers perform a vital service that serves the buyer, the true fan and also serves the performer by providing a secondary market to minimize wasted and empty seats.

The ticket sellers don't give a rat's ass about the consumer as can be seen by the incompetent and surely manner with which they "serve" the buyers.

Without scalping, without a free market in tickets, you will have the front rows of every concert filled with blaise press and radio station employees while the really passionate and devoted fans will be stuck in the back like the damned shows you see from Monaco. Monaco! Watching KYlie sitting quietly, perhaps tapping their foot if they really let themselves go. All rich VIPs and not a single super fan withing sight of the performer.

Think about it.

The artists know how to limit scalping. No more than six tickets per sale. That's perfectly fair. How are you going to STOP someone from paying $1000 for a front row seat? You make it a crime, he will mug the seller or pay him in sex, drugs or a valuable "gift." Only control freaks who hate free choice would try to stop open and free ticket resales.

Can you imagine if they applied that logic to other goods and services? "Oh no, you can't charge more than 10% of the original cost of that 1723 Stradivarius violin. That will be 14 cents please." "The Monet? Yes, that $68.50, plus VAT."


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