12-30-2017, 12:12 PM
You have to play the game, more or less. I've gone to a couple of shows this year and in both cases, they sold out less than an hour after going on sale. They didn't sell out because of fans buying tickets. The brokers bought everything, tripled the price, then waited for people to panic and shell out way too much on Stub Hub.
Screw that. What I've learned is that if you wait the brokers out, the prices will drop significantly a few days before the event. It's worked for me every time. In one case, I even got tickets under face form a guy that was asking triple just a week before. The assholes don't want to get stuck with excess and take a loss.
Of course, there is risk here. If the event you're wanting to attend truly has enough demand to sell tickets at double or triple, then there's no way around it. You have to determine whether or not the demand is being generated by street-level interest or manufactured panic after the scalpers buy everything. I'd guess that it's manufactured panic more often than not.
Screw that. What I've learned is that if you wait the brokers out, the prices will drop significantly a few days before the event. It's worked for me every time. In one case, I even got tickets under face form a guy that was asking triple just a week before. The assholes don't want to get stuck with excess and take a loss.
Of course, there is risk here. If the event you're wanting to attend truly has enough demand to sell tickets at double or triple, then there's no way around it. You have to determine whether or not the demand is being generated by street-level interest or manufactured panic after the scalpers buy everything. I'd guess that it's manufactured panic more often than not.
