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Originally Posted by Captain Awesome
So exactly WHY do they have laws against scalping tickets then? I could make loads of money from people who want to pay a premium for them but for some odd reason it's considered illegal!!!
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A dealer selling a car - wait, scratch that - refusing to sell a car for less than "X" dollars OVER MSRP - is different from a scalper selling tickets right in front of the gate at Yankee Stadium.
You (dealer) are selling the cars new, untitled, and untill they change the insipid franchise laws in this country, the only way to buy a new car (can't buy directly from GM and pick it up right at the front door of Oshawa Assembly, but boy how I'd love to). A ticket is purchased at face value from the Yankees and being resold privately - same way those Wiis and X-Boxes are auctioned at insane prices on ebay. It would be like the Yankees hiring a department to sell their tickets, paying them to sell their tickets at face value, and making them the only resource for getting your tickets. But then that department decides to add their
own fees on top of that, which do not make it back to the Yankees.
If anything, it should be legal for Joe Shmoe to scalp a World Series ticket right in front of the Stadium and
illegal for dealers to refuse to sell any of their cars for more than the manufacturer has suggested the retail price is.
Or, at the very minimum, GM should have some fair game practice laws that might stipulate "if you add any fees beyond MSRP and state/county required fees for taxes and registration, we will limit how many cars you get next month".