Getting Your Concert Tickets Online? Good Luck With That.

“Two years after the repeal of New York State’s decades-old anti-scalping laws, the ticket marketplace has become a fiercely competitive game in which major corporations compete over resale prices with the fan next door, scalpers have a Washington lobbyist and thousands of tickets disappear in a fraction of a second. … And the churning secondary market has muddied long-held beliefs in the concert industry about what constitutes fair trade.”