@phishschticks said:

But these guys also by sports tickets. Those are the fans we need to reach out to and form an alliance with. It will not end unless a LARGE group stands up and says enough is enough...

Sports affiliates are as bad as Ticketmaster. As an example the NHL's offical ticket exchange for my hometeam (the pittsburgh penguins) has on the ice tickets for 200-900 bucks and thats for a game against the Florida Panthers. Now, its hard to know what face value is for those tickets because you cant even look at the prices without signing for a waiting list. But I would imagine that it wouldn't cost over 200 dollars at the box office.

The problem is that people will pay those prices, regardless of them knowing they are getting fucked. The people who are selling the tickets to the scalpers dont care, and as long as there is only a tiny portion who are complaining it wont matter. I dont know that there will ever be a large enough group complaining about it. Because even whole musical acts have tried to champion anti-scalping measures and it almost always falls flat on it's face. The bands need the ticketing companies, because the ticketing companies hold rights to all the major venues, and the ticketing companies dont care about scalpers because it sells more tickets. You would need a massive massive group spanning across every type of fan of every type of music. Even then there will be the music fan equivalent to scabs crossing the picket line who break down at the last minute and buy off scalpers to get their fix of music.