Would be ironic if someone else bought it and sold it to Ticketmaster at a significant markup

Although I doubt they would buy it back, their customers all hate them, they have the worst reputation, and they've never given any shits about that. So I don't think they'll do any of that anyhow.

> their customers all hate them, they have the worst reputation

Maybe worth pointing out- that's a feature, not a bug.

The value Ticketmaster provides is taking the anger from fans for high prices. The performers (and producers/labels/whatever) want to extract as much value from their fans as they can, and having Ticketmaster look like the greedy badperson prevents their fans from being mad at them.

Interesting. How do the artists get paid beyond the ticket prices if the money goes to Ticketmaster though?