Mass Cancellation By Ticketmaster For Ariana Grande's Tickets Bought From Scalpers

[MonsterPaws 2,741]

I'm confused. Didn't the scalpers already receive their money from reselling the tickets? How does cancelling the tickets (now owned by fans/end user) addressing scalping?

Even if Ticketmaster got refunded the payments from the scalpers, don't the scalpers benefit from the small profit they made from the resale?

Genuinely out of the loop here.

[TheARTPOPball 834]

Sucks for the fans but if everyone did this the demand for resell tickets would vanish and the scalpers would also. Unfortunately people will not draw the line on their own and continue to pay ridiculous prices bc of fomo. I really wanna see they mayhem ball but im not paying 500$ for an okayish seat nor am i paying 250 to sit all the way in the back.

[TEANUS 15,688]

Here’s what I don’t understand, allll of these artists have their own .com or webstore - how hard could it really be to generate codes FIRST to the email addresses that have used the artist’s direct-to-consumer store? 

[Ladle Ghoulash 27,710]

10 hours ago, MonsterPaws said:

I'm confused. Didn't the scalpers already receive their money from reselling the tickets? How does cancelling the tickets (now owned by fans/end user) addressing scalping?

Even if Ticketmaster got refunded the payments from the scalpers, don't the scalpers benefit from the small profit they made from the resale?

Genuinely out of the loop here.

So if the tickets were sold through a third party website like StubHub, if the ticket is voided, the buyer gets their money back. So this is effective in the sense that the scalpers likely lose the money they made, it’s just ineffective in the sense that the fans who bought the tickets from the scalpers might not get their seats back once the tickets go back on sale.

[RAMROD 110,922]

8 hours ago, TEANUS said:

Here’s what I don’t understand, allll of these artists have their own .com or webstore - how hard could it really be to generate codes FIRST to the email addresses that have used the artist’s direct-to-consumer store? 

If it's not unique code, that's attached to your ticketmaster account, it can be shared online. And in the and scalpers will get ahold of it too. 

[50 Ft Queenie 495]

On 10/26/2025 at 10:00 AM, princedeeblebleble said:

Where was this for Gaga :p  

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