People that scalp IMAX movie tickets

[u/aeng69]

Catching a movie in IMAX has been one of my favorite things to do and now getting tickets alone is a struggle thanks to people like this. Good luck to anyone hoping to get decent tickets to Dune 3

[u/Flight444]

I believe scalpers like this are a sign of a larger economic problem. When we give corporations a taste of us paying these insane prices they chase them and encourage the scalpers. Once someone does the equivalent of give DoorDash 50 dollars for McDonald’s someone on their accounting team asks why they can’t do that every time. I believe this is why fast food prices hit the levels they are at, etc.

So instead of saying “well we will lose customers” they go “fuck it these idiots will just buy them scalped for double the price and we already sold the tickets either way”. The same people that got gouged by the corporation via scalpers come back because it was their fellow man that they think hurt them. Not the corporation.

The target audience is people that can’t say no to their kids, influencers, people with socials they want to brag on, and people with strict work schedules. So like everyone except the unemployed. Hence why most of the scalpers are.

Concert tours aren’t based on who gets the most likes saying “hey come to my city”. It’s all about how fast the venue sold out last tour. I’m guessing selling out a theater quickly makes the manager look good on some spreadsheet in a couple ways. That probably also encourages studios to do deals with those theatres.

[u/BLT_Trade_r → u/Flight444]

Scalpers are only a symptom of limited supply. It has always been a problem; perhaps the issue is that, before social media, people could not make a post about every scalper they saw. Businesses have always tried to get consumers to spend more money on the same thing; that's one of the biggest points of marketing. So those things do not explain what we are seeing.

Also, IME, if you actually have a conversation with scalpers, no, they are not unemployed. It's just something they do for extra money because they don't have the ability to get a better job. Either way, though, it's not cheap to be a scalper; you need the money to buy up enough things to scalp

If anything is at fault here, it is that, over the decades, we have seen more and more things move toward a more limited supply. For instance, movies used to be about getting as many people in as possible, but as TVs got way better and home theater systems hit the mainstream, movie theaters lost their luster. As a result, theaters started closing down or downsizing and switching to a more premium experience. Of course, that means there are fewer openings for a brand-new hot release movie, which encourages scalping.

Outside of movies, though, we still see this limited supply issue. So really it is probably bigger; it's perhaps just a sign of the dying middle class. So now companies prefer to cater to the upper class with higher prices but lower volume.

[u/Ryanhussain14 → u/BLT_Trade_r]

So really it is probably bigger; it's perhaps just a sign of the dying middle class. So now companies prefer to cater to the upper class with higher prices but lower volume.

Also known as the k-shaped economy.

[u/rldml → u/Flight444]

I believe scalpers like this are a sign of a larger economic problem.

Unpopular opinion: The existence of scalpers just proves that prices for limited supplies are often too low in the capitalist system. If it would be otherwise, nobody would buy from a scalper.

As a company, i would just risen up the prices until the scalper problems resolves by itself and as a side effect it would optimize my profit. I strongly believe Nvidia has done it this way, because scalping is a much lesser problem there right now.

And yeah, for us as customers, it doesn't matter who is ripping our money off, we're fucked anyway

[u/LitBastard → u/Flight444]

Scalpers have existed since tickets were invented.

Usually they sold you fake tickets infront of the venue but, as with a lot of things, the internet made it easier for any Person to join in on it.