For those not following along. The @Brewers are either direct listing or working with a broker/consolidator to control supply on the “secondary market”. The BOTS ACT is in place to circumvent ticket limits which gives an unfair advantage to certain buyers over general consumers

A couple of tidbits from after the game started. Tickets clearly being controlled not by fans / typical resellers. Just tossing this out there since some people still think this is scalpers and not an inside job. Game in 3rd inn when screenshots were taken. Priced not to sell.

And….they found more. Likely visiting team returns. But why not use the box office site? Oh. That’s right. You can sell them for more on @SeatGeek

Game 2 just popped up with 10 sections available from the box office.

Now it gets even more interesting. Box office is showing “event not on sale.”But the tickets that typically come out of the box office on gameday between the dugouts just popped up on SeatGeek in sets of 4. At prices higher than box office was, but lower than where resale was.

Follow the money. Watch the # of listings. Up down up down up down Supply manipulation tactics kept this price high. Deceptive Trade. Artificial Scarcity. Collusion. Call it what you want. Fans deserve transparency. #worldseries @Brewers @FTC

Wild take. You could’ve paid a LOT less money without this manipulation. This is literally why live event pricing is out of control.

When one entity is allowed to sell thousands of tickets on the “secondary” market, it allows markets to be easily manipulated for big events with demand. The bots act is in place so one cannot “mass scalp” and control the market. Teams partner with one entity with no limits. @FTC

Never Scamhub. WAY too many speculative tickets. And the fan guarantee just offers you a refund 98% of the time.

When the market is being manipulated, it’s hard to guess where price is headed unless you know how much inventory is being withheld. I just watched @SeatGeek go from having 85 listings of 2+ tickets to 102 listings Amazing job slow ticketing this game to make you pay more

Teams obsession with pricing entire venues at secondary prices has led to this. They sucked the atmosphere out of live events overpricing the entire market. People finally said, enough is enough. Teams think this is a win because they got rid of “scalpers”, but they created this.

No one is complaining about the prices that MLB helped set. People are complaining about the dynamic prices that the team chose for individual games. Plus the manipulation of the market to hide supply to keep prices from dropping. Team (or dedicated broker) controlling secondary

The problem has been growing slowly for a decade. Obsessing over the secondary market and setting prices above what the market will bear. Raise prices on season ticket holders every year. Eventually you hit the tipping point. We are there. And it’s going to be hard to repair.