Unfortunately, with new law or not, no one pays attention.

Wow, this website notoriously attracts hundreds of anti-scalper bitching. Now you post something that directly addresses the situation and you've got two comments. Why am I not surprised; hipsters have no fucking conviction. Lazy douches

I like um this article

ny scalping laws dont mean shit anyways so any change really doesnt make a fucking difference. scalpers will just sell ny event tickets out of state anyway. the only way to truly eliminate the problem of scalping is to make illegal in the country which would never happen.

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Laws regulating scalping are anticapitalistic. If you want to sell something you own you should be able to charge whatever you want. Are they going to regulate how much you can sell your condo for next?

Dude! You have a condo? ... that's awesome!

i was walking past webster the night sonic youth was in town a couple of months ago. two boys out of the ghetto came up to make and asked, "dude. sonk yout? tickets? sonk yout? front row center for the yout!" i kept walking.

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Here is the key quote in all this:

"Ticket brokers and others — including Gov. Eliot Spitzer — have pushed to get rid of the limits and allow market forces to set prices in the so-called secondary ticket market, so long as the brokers are obtaining tickets legally. "

I believe scalping should be legal as long as the method of obtaning them is level for all. If I pull great seats on ticketmaster and someone really wants to pay $$ for them, then why not let the free market dictate. Hoeever,the problem is if brokers and scalpers get preferential treatment in the acquisition of these tickets on the primary market.

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Couldn’t agree more with Loop.

There is nothing wrong with a free market for tickets obtained through the normal channels, I have a huge problem with the siphoning of tickets directly from the box office/ticketmaster system into scalpers hands. There should be HUGE penalties & jail time for that.

If someone didn’t make the effort to buy tickets for a show or game when they went on sale and the event is now sold out, those tickets should carry a premium if I want to sell them. Going to a show or game is not an entitlement.

Let the market dictate, supply and demand will sort things out. It is a proven fact that when scalping is legalized in a state, prices go down.
Capping the price of tickets is like telling a store that they can only sell an item for few bucks more than what they paid for it. It makes no sense.

stop acting like concert tickets are like candy bars. not the same thing. all this market forces stuff you guys are talking about is elementary bullshit; tthe fact that you you took econ for a semester in college makes neither you knowledgeable on the subject nor your argument legitimate.

you're all stupid. not every product is the same. don't act like we live in a completely free capitalist system and apply the same basic principle to everything. the fact that you took econ for a semester in college doesn't make you knowledgeable or your argument legitimate. so please, shut up.

In resopnse to those eloquent arguments by "voice of reason?" and "Anonymous", I ask you.

Do you believe that people should be allowed to sell things like baseball cards above the value they were sold originally or should Topps try to shut down the secondary market for that as well?

My concern is why should concert tickets be treated differently. If all have equal access to the original purchase, then what is the big deal if someone out there wants to go so bad they offer a little more for it? Nobody really loses. Those that wanted to go to the show either got tickets or missed out and once the secondary market sale is done, the situation remains the same: Those that want to go to the show either got tickets or missed out.

Your complaints should be geared towards that initial allocation of tickets which seem to end up in scalpers hands all too often and not the market afterwards because if that first sale process is fixed, the secondary market world beautifully.

Also, keep in mind. In a secondary market, if you want to go to a show that does not really have much demand, you would probably be able to get tickets at below cost.

^^^ as per tonight's Decemberists concert, or the Shins show a few weeks back at MSG.

Yes, thank God there are a lot of stupid scalpers out there who overbuy tickets to shows that don't have much demand apart from the scalpers themselves! I hope they don't make selling tickets below face illegal too!

me an me homeyz waz chillin by webster hall the other night - go figure that lil dude done have a hall named after hizzelf - and me and me homey was trying to git rid of some primo tixets. we waz like "dude. sonk yout? tickets? sonk yout? front row center for the yout!" and these too good for da hood folks just walk on by. waz up wid dat? cant a brudda make a dolla dolla?

hey, why shouldn't webster have a hall if whatchutalkinbout willis can have a bridge?

speaking of which, anyone have luck getting Bjork tickets?

I'd like the secondary market in tickets to be poor so that I can pick up good tickets outside the events the night of the show from some scumbag broaker who bought too many.

I'd like the secondary market in tickets to be poor so that I can pick up good tickets outside the events the night of the show for face or less from some scumbag broaker who bought too many.

I'd like the secondary market in tickets to be poor so that I can pick up good tickets outside the events the night of the show for face or less from some scumbag broker who bought too many.

Can You explain this to me?
Jones Beach is on NY State Property
subject to NY state laws.
Scalping of tickets is illegal in NY..
But Jones beaches own website sends you to a scalper for tickets?
How can that be?