Ticket scalpers: The real ticket masters

The Indicator from Planet Money

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Business

4.7 • 9.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 November 2021

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

Ticket scalpers. They're the bane of every fan's existence because they manage to snag concert tickets before fans can even get their webpages to load. An economist would tell you the story is more complicated than that.

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0:00.0	NPR.
0:02.0	This is the Indiegator from Planet Money, I'm Darian Woods.
0:13.9	And I'm Stacey Vanix-Met.
0:15.6	And Darian, I recently learned that you are a big fan of the singer, pop artist Charlie
0:22.5	with an I-X-C-X.
0:24.0	That's right, I'm a big fan.
0:26.8	And we were talking about this because she's going on tour.
0:29.5	She's coming to New York, and a couple of weeks ago, you and I got together to buy me
0:33.6	tickets.
0:34.6	You were helping me, moral support and bit of logistical support, when these tickets went
0:38.8	on sale at 10am.
0:40.4	Are you online?
0:41.4	I'm online.
0:42.4	I've got my debit card out.
0:44.4	OK, OK.
0:45.4	I mean, this is like an Olympic sport, right?
0:48.2	Like these tickets go and sell you of seconds to buy one.
0:51.4	Yeah.
0:52.4	And we recruited Indiegator and Turner Taylor Washington to help us through the Byzantine
0:56.2	process of ticket buying.
0:57.8	Yes, Taylor is like this ticket buying wizard.
1:00.5	She knows all the ins and outs.
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