>>6102560>>6102731Scalpers do not repeatedly buy tons of tickets for the same show in the same town and then give tickets away for 9 dollars, 1 dollar or even 0 dollars. Giving cheap tickets or free tickets not only loses you money, it fucks up your own scalping business as people then get the idea that they can just wait and get auper cheap or free tickets. This has happened many times and many promoters, including boxing promoters have been documented as buying their own tickets to create buzz and / or re-sell at higher prices at first to get around fair trade laws which restrict ticket costs. AEW have many VIP seats which were never available on the pre-sale and only popped up on the 'secondary market' at higher prices, and this show was announced as a sell-out when the pre-sale only had a fraction of the tickets available. Signs point to them buying their own tickets, and the best argument presented to the contrary is 'You don't know the scalping business, they purposefully pay then give tickets away for free over and over again', but reality says that they don't, they stand outside the venue until the last minute trying to sell them, they have nothing to gain by giving them away for free, they only lose more by fucking their own market.
