311. Why Is the Live-Event Ticket Market So Screwed Up?

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311. Why Is the Live-Event Ticket Market So Screwed Up?

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Dec 7, 2017

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The public has almost no chance to buy good tickets to the best events. Ticket brokers, meanwhile, make huge profits on the secondary markets. Here's the story of how this market got so dysfunctional, how it can be fixed – and why it probably won't be.

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Dec 7, 2017

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311. Why Is the Live-Event Ticket Market So Screwed Up?

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