[alexasmyths]

"there's definite consumer value to seeing tickets that sold. It helps correct an information imbalance between sellers and buyers."

I don't think you're playing the devil's advocate.

By all means - they and and as you indicate - maybe should show recent tickets sold. That's valuable information.

But what they are showing is made up data. Not good. And definitely 'anti valuable'.

[jordancolburn]

They are showing tickets that recently sold. Just regardless of whether or not they fit in your searches and whether or not they knew they were already sold at the time you loaded the page.

They are going out of their way to insert previously sold tickets at the top of searches to make things look busy. I never timed how long it could be from sale to "simulated sale" but there were a few that stuck around for probably 10 min (guesstimate, but it was long enough to grab my coworkers and discuss and look at the code and refresh a number of times).