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pavel_lishin ◴[] No.45305346[source]
We bought $700 tickets to see a show we really wanted to see, but ended up being unable to make it.

We tried selling it on Ticketmaster, where you can in theory set your own price, or accept their "best offer". Our best offer was somewhere in the neighborhood of $150, and given that it was the night of the show, we accepted it.

We paid $54 per ticket in "processing fees" when purchasing, and paid $50 in more "processing fees" when selling. I'm sure the eventual buyers of our tickets probably had to pony up something like that as well.

If I had a magic button that made everyone above a certain level working there destitute and homeless, I'd probably break my finger pushing it.

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1. thousand_nights ◴[] No.45305903[source]
i experienced the opposite of this, bought tickets for a band i didn't really want to see, and ended up selling it on ticketmaster for a profit shortly before the concert

i felt like i accidentally made money on some esoteric stock market