The traditional scalper used to sell his tickets on the street corner before games. Now more and more, we see people being able to sell their tickets online, making event tickets a lot harder to come by. More and more websites are popping, like Stubhub and Ticketmaster, that purchase tickets directly from the teams and selling them online at a profit, some even getting exclusivity rights to sell all the tickets.
The big issue now is that more and more people are buying tickets for the sole purpose of scalping them online. What used to be just a few guys, has now turned into a huge business. Sites like eBay and Craigslist make it so easy for people to sell their tickets safely and securely. With sports organizations realizing that this is such a big trend, they launched their own websites allowing people to resell their tickets, giving the team a cut. While this makes it much easier to purchase tickets, it raises the prices, to the point where the average fan has a very hard time purchasing tickets.
With tickets purchased directly already being ridiculously high, having to purchased scalped tickets just makes it much worse. Having tickets available online is great, when you need them, but is it really fair to have people making a profit off another persons products?
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