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[QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 5318234, member: 488"]
Yes, but markets can vary significantly based on restrictions and regulations.  There currently are none in the sports ticketing business.  Whether there should be, I don't know.

But even if you discard the food analogy, my point is that the market for sports or concert tickets isn't really comparable to any other market because in every other market, there are no restrictions on how many people can consume the product.  If everyone decides they want a pair of Levi's jeans, the company simply makes more of them.  With a venue like Fenway or MSG, there is a finite number of people that can consume a given event.

It's the pricing structure that's changed.  Whereas in previous generations, die-hard fans could camp out for hours or even days at a time to secure tickets, they're now reduced to refreshing the page every 15 seconds to compete with bots and ticket brokers looking to make a quick buck.  And once those kinds of things begin to infiltrate the process, it's no longer an accurate reflection of basic supply and demand IMO.
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