Argument: Scalpers keep supply low, prices high, by tearing up tickets

Support

For the scalpers’ business to work, they will often need to limit the supply of tickets—and tear up the extras instead of selling them at face value: “If more of the tickets are purchased by ticket scalping enterprises, there are fewer and fewer seats left for those who try to purchase their tickets legitimately. This creates a demand for ticket scalping, which leads to inflation of ticket prices and a subversion of the original ticket system.”[1]