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Obey Your Master, Ticketmaster!

Bookers aren't villains, he says, but part of a free market that sites like StubHub have made more efficient, giving everyone an equal chance to buy or sell at transparent prices. When demand is low, fans can get great deals. All right, this is StubHub. But yes, StubHub builds that market by partnering with brokers like Elite.

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Obey Your Master, Ticketmaster!

Bookers aren't villains, he says, but part of a free market that sites like StubHub have made more efficient, giving everyone an equal chance to buy or sell at transparent prices. When demand is low, fans can get great deals. All right, this is StubHub. But yes, StubHub builds that market by partnering with brokers like Elite.

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Obey Your Master, Ticketmaster!

Bookers aren't villains, he says, but part of a free market that sites like StubHub have made more efficient, giving everyone an equal chance to buy or sell at transparent prices. When demand is low, fans can get great deals. All right, this is StubHub. But yes, StubHub builds that market by partnering with brokers like Elite.

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Obey Your Master, Ticketmaster!

StubHub charges brokers lower fees to sell on the site than ordinary fans pay when they sell. And what happens to a ticket when a broker scoops it up? Well, remember Melissa Santos at All Things Go? When she was shut out of face value tickets, she went to StubHub just a couple hours later.

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Obey Your Master, Ticketmaster!

StubHub charges brokers lower fees to sell on the site than ordinary fans pay when they sell. And what happens to a ticket when a broker scoops it up? Well, remember Melissa Santos at All Things Go? When she was shut out of face value tickets, she went to StubHub just a couple hours later.

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Obey Your Master, Ticketmaster!

StubHub charges brokers lower fees to sell on the site than ordinary fans pay when they sell. And what happens to a ticket when a broker scoops it up? Well, remember Melissa Santos at All Things Go? When she was shut out of face value tickets, she went to StubHub just a couple hours later.

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Obey Your Master, Ticketmaster!

A thousand dollars to see Hoser. I mean, come on. That's crazy. I met a woman sitting on the lawn at All Things Go. Paid $540 on StubHub. But the fact is she paid it. She did.

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Obey Your Master, Ticketmaster!

A thousand dollars to see Hoser. I mean, come on. That's crazy. I met a woman sitting on the lawn at All Things Go. Paid $540 on StubHub. But the fact is she paid it. She did.

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Obey Your Master, Ticketmaster!

A thousand dollars to see Hoser. I mean, come on. That's crazy. I met a woman sitting on the lawn at All Things Go. Paid $540 on StubHub. But the fact is she paid it. She did.

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She did pay it.

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She did pay it.

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She did pay it.

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Obey Your Master, Ticketmaster!

This is going to be a problem. So once all the fees and expenses and costs of the show come out of the wash, the artists made about $100, the promoter in the venue made about $70, the broker made $110, and StubHub made $180. Why does StubHub deserve the biggest share of that woman's purchase?

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Obey Your Master, Ticketmaster!

This is going to be a problem. So once all the fees and expenses and costs of the show come out of the wash, the artists made about $100, the promoter in the venue made about $70, the broker made $110, and StubHub made $180. Why does StubHub deserve the biggest share of that woman's purchase?

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Obey Your Master, Ticketmaster!

This is going to be a problem. So once all the fees and expenses and costs of the show come out of the wash, the artists made about $100, the promoter in the venue made about $70, the broker made $110, and StubHub made $180. Why does StubHub deserve the biggest share of that woman's purchase?

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That the promoters get more of the profit.

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Obey Your Master, Ticketmaster!

That the promoters get more of the profit.

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Obey Your Master, Ticketmaster!

That the promoters get more of the profit.

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Obey Your Master, Ticketmaster!

What Miller is suggesting... A participation. Yeah, that's a nice way of saying a huge fee. ...is nothing less than the fork in the road ticketing now stands at. StubHub is offering to share their profits from resold tickets with musicians like Andrew McMahon. If StubHub is also allowed to handle the original on sale, the part Ticketmaster now does exclusively...

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Obey Your Master, Ticketmaster!

What Miller is suggesting... A participation. Yeah, that's a nice way of saying a huge fee. ...is nothing less than the fork in the road ticketing now stands at. StubHub is offering to share their profits from resold tickets with musicians like Andrew McMahon. If StubHub is also allowed to handle the original on sale, the part Ticketmaster now does exclusively...