Stevie Nicks is performing in Omaha in March. Decent seats are over $400. That's regular price, not scalper.
No, that's the scalper price. Difference is Ticketmaster is the one scalping their tickets, manipulating supply (to where fans can't make informed decisions), and is creating a monopoly.
The worst part about it humans used to have a BETTER chance with the old system. You know, when you could pre-select your section or seats and it would simply cart the best available at that price. Now? You have no ******* idea what the price range will be ahead of time (or where the price points are), TM pulls and releases tickets making fans think there is less supply than there is, and then you have the rigged queue system. Brokers buy "aged" accounts or have nerds that have figured out the algos and create accounts to get them higher queueus. This has resulted in it being harder for fans to get tickets as well as juking the price and supply.
Sadly TM and AXS continue to scoop up more venues. As a fan it was 10x easier pulling Etix and EB tickets. On the ball? At least you had a shot. Now they try to price every ticket as if it was a sold out show, then force people to sell on their platform when they can't go.
TM and Amazon are the worst monopolies this country has seen. At least on some level Amazon benefits consumers but TM? They are the worst of the worst.