Concert Tickets
 

Is it just me or are concert tickets are way too expensive. Ticket now average at around $45.00. I miss those days when $35.00 was the prime seat and you can buy a ticket for $25 and lower. :(

I think you can also safely say though that a lot more goes into putting shows on than it used to.. Or at least in many cases...

What I don't get about my state is the weird scalping laws. Try this one on for size:

My daddy and I wanted to go see the Eagles in concert, but tickets sold out in 45 minutes. Why? 'Cuz ticket brokers bought up all the good seats, only to turn around and re-sell them at 4 times their original price. Now we both love the Eagles, but there was no way we were shelling out upwards of $300 a pop for seats.

And yet... a coworker of mine originally from NYC really misses Yankees games. He was going to be travelling in a city where and when the Yanks were playing an away game and thought he'd try to get tickets for it. He went online and found out that at this particular stadium, season-ticket holders who were not going to use their tickets for a particular game could turn them back to the stadium for a refund. The stadium would then turn around and sell those tickets (at a slightly inflated price, something like 20%) online. He went through the entire registration process, including submitting his name, address, and credit card number, and selected a set of tickets that he thought to be reasonably priced. He clicked on "purchase tickets," only to be given an error message informing him that such a purchase was illegal in his state. He was booted off the site.

Is anyone else confused here? Why is one considered scalping and the other legal "brokerage"?

Most likely the brokerages pay for the campaigns of certain politicians in your state... So you end up with laws like this. Write your newspaper -- or call a TV Station with your problem. If your market is anything like mine (and it's damned hard to find stories here right now) they'll snatch that up in a heartbeat. I would.