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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 1061025" data-attributes="member: 7261">Agree.  I am fine with a free and open market, one where the original buyer had the intent to use the tickets, but plans changed and now they need to sell them.  That as to opposed to a small number of brokers, like Ticketmaster, using computers and other techniques, to buy up a large number of tickets for an event and then profiting through outrageous resale prices, because they and other large brokers "bought the house out".  This is what happens at popular concerts and open market sporting events like the Super Bowl.  No different than people who bought up shelves full of toilet paper during Covid and resold them for $5/roll.I don't think there are enough tickets available for home Packer games, for brokers to "corner the Packer ticket market", for any given game.  However, due to that limited supply, original buyers of Packer tickets (season ticket holders) are usually able to profit off of selling their tickets.  I have yet to attend a game at Lambeau where I thought "yikes, how are there so many fans from the other team?"  The visiting teams are allotted so many tickets, their fans buy those up.  Then there is the resale market of Packer tickets, some by fans who have tickets but can't make the game.  Whomever buys those on the open market, so be it.  The other resale market for Packer tickets and the one that is on the table for elimination are those "fans" that hold season tickets, not to attend the games, but to profit by them.  If the Packer organization can close that loophole, cut those buyers off and pass the tickets to real Packer fans, that have waited years for season tickets, then do it.Supply and demand economics is a great thing, but not when the supply is being artificially controlled by monopolies.</blockquote>

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