Scalpers Are Selling Whole Ticketmaster Accounts Now
CYBER
VICE
4 • 645 Ratings
🗓️ 23 March 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
It’s almost impossible to get retail priced tickets to The Cure’s newest live tour. Fans are, once again, turning to the secondary market despite the band’s insistence that Ticketmaster shut it down.
This week on Cyber, Joseph Cox and Motherboard Motherboard editor-in-chief Jason Koebler take us into the world of the ticket scalper, where whole Ticketmaster accounts are being sold in bulk and a “verified fan” is just someone the algorithm approves of.
Stories discussed in this episode:
The Cure Tried to Stop Scalpers. Brokers Are Selling Entire Ticketmaster Accounts Instead
Ticketmaster Cancels Public Sale for Taylor Swift Tickets Because It Already Sold Them All
The Man Who Broke Ticketmaster
We’re recording CYBER live on Twitch and YouTube. Watch live during the week. Follow us there to get alerts when we go live. We take questions from the audience and yours might just end up on the show.
Subscribe to CYBER on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your podcasts.
Hosted on Acast. Seeacast.com/privacy for more information.
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | It's got the code. It's going to launch. |
| 0:10.5 | It's a unit system. I know this. |
| 0:14.9 | It's all the files of the park. It tells you everything. |
| 0:18.9 | Sir, he's uploading the virus. |
| 0:21.6 | Eagle 1. The package he's uploading the virus. The eagle one. |
| 0:22.4 | The package is being delivered. |
| 0:24.7 | Hello out there on the internet. |
| 0:26.8 | I am Matthew Galt. |
| 0:28.0 | This, this is cyber. |
| 0:29.9 | Today, we're doing another deep dive |
| 0:31.6 | into the salacious world ticket scalpers. |
| 0:34.0 | Show me, show me, show me how you do that trick. |
| 0:36.3 | The one that guarantees I can get tickets to the Cure's newest tour. |
| 0:40.3 | If you're just a fan, you probably can't. |
| 0:43.3 | Not without interacting with the secondary market, that is. |
| 0:45.9 | We've talked about this nightmare that is live ticket concert prices before and how Ticketmaster enables them and tries to fight against it. |
| 0:54.9 | Now there's a new twist. Ticketmaster has tried to crack down on the practice of selling tickets and in response, |
| 1:00.3 | brokers appear to be selling entire Ticketmaster accounts. With me here today to walk through |
| 1:05.2 | this as motherboard editor-in-chief, Jason Kebler, and reporter Joseph Cox. Thank you both so much for coming on to the show. |
| 1:11.6 | How are you guys doing today? |
| 1:13.7 | I'm good. Good cure. |
| 1:16.4 | Good cure reference there. |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from VICE, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of VICE and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.