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Ticket scalpers now use algorithms to buy thousands of seats

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That guy outside the venue selling crumpled tickets has been replaced by Wall Street-level algorithms. The modern secondary ticket market is dominated by professional brokers using sophisticated software to buy thousands of seats in milliseconds. It is an unregulated shadow economy that artificially restricts supply to extort desperate fans.

Ticket scalpers now use algorithms to buy thousands of seats
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