I was scouring several scalper sites the weeks before the show. Then what appeared to be those same tickets popped up on TM.
It's easy to get stubhub and ticketsnow mixed up. Ticketsnow is owned by ticketmaster so one would think transfer of tickets from primary seller to secondary seller(and vice versa) would be easy.
Again, not sure you really realize how the secondary market works.
StubHub, TicketsNow, VividSeats, SeatGeek, TicketNetwork... none of them own inventory. They provide software to brokers and websites to list tickets on their exchange. That's it. Just because a broker lists his or her tickets on TicketsNow does not mean TicketMaster is going to take the seats back and re-sell them.
If that were the case, the tickets could be sold over and over again, which would create an absolute headache for TicketMaster. Could you imagine if tickets purchased from the *primary market* weren't scanned at the gate and denied entry because somebody else was already using them? That's one of the only two arguments that there are to use the primary market. Why jeopardize that over an extra couple hundred dollars? It's something a small broker or beginning re-seller would do... and then they'd quickly end up kicked off these exchanges anyway.
Insane logic, and it simply does not happen.
The company I work for does have a broker that works in house, but the broker is not under the company name, and is its own entity. Obviously, we placate each other in ways that are mutually beneficial.
A broker/re-seller is not going to be in cahoots with TicketMaster. TicketMaster is doing its best to cut into the rest of the industry, but decided to buy TicketsNow to at least have their fingers in the pie.
You're just completely off base with this, sorry.
