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by Retric 1001 days ago
Ticketmaster is still a monopoly.

What I meant is she’s avoiding the resale/scalping thing via Verified Fan to minimize the impact of scalpers. It’s still run through tickmaster.

https://help.ticketmaster.com/hc/en-us/articles/978700273934...

But Verified Fan isn’t universally applied. The individual artist make separate deals requiring it or not and they take the blame for the hassle of requiring it. I suspect but don’t know that Tickmaster also takes a larger cut for the “overhead” of Verified Fan, making this a classic monopolist lose lose situation.

PS: Rereading what I said I really wasn’t clear.