Tickets for the great entertainer's shows in Boston and New York went on sale, and fans waited in line for up to 12 hours. Thousands tried to buy at the same time, but resellers nabbed them quickly and resold them for more than 10 times the price of the original tickets. “We are at our wits’ end how to keep tickets out of the hands of speculators,” the star complained.
This scene could have easily played out virtually, last summer, on Ticketmaster and StubHub, when Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band concerts went on sale for $60 to Shady “sidewalk men” paid bystanders to wait in queues nearly a mile long, and prices increased in the resale market from $5 to $50.
