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As the game worn sneaker market grows, there will be some sneakerheads who are dealt with the reality of photomatching. Disappointment follows.

idk who she thinks she is sorry. like all of this is just a money grab and it makes me sad this is what concerts have come to

I believe we now have evidence of FIFA's World Cup ticketing shell game: FIFA is colluding with third-party resale platforms for its own supply management. Look at this SeatGeek map (secondary market!) for Saudi Arabia vs Cape Verde. The circled areas are not random single resale tickets, but large, contiguous blocks of seats: entire rows and swaths in sections 101/102, 112/113, 119/120, 134–137, 139, ... The blue circles appeared weeks ago, then the purple blocks suddenly showed up a day or two ago, and the red blocks seem to have appeared recently too. That's not what ordinary fan or even commercial scalper resale looks like who resell pairs, fours, and scattered seats. Instead, this looks like inventory being dumped in bulk onto secondary markets, at prices below FIFA's official site. Why doesn't FIFA just lower prices on its own site Probably because official price cuts could trigger refund demands, chargebacks, or consumer-protection headaches from fans who already bought at much higher prices. Instead FIFA keeps official prices high, avoids openly admitting the market-clearing price is lower, and moves unsold inventory through third-party resale platforms instead.

Threadguy explains why Pokémon gacha companies have one of the greatest business models ever “You have a very finite supply of vintage Pokémon that people want. There's not that many of these cards” “So you get a bunch of these gambling companies to come in and the only moat these gacha companies have is their supply. So they come up with big VC dollars and they buy everything” “They put them in these packs. Somebody spends, reveals a gacha and what do they do? They sell it back to the company -15% and then they spend again” “Almost nobody is actually cashing out, getting the card shipped and letting it hit the market again. Once they're purchased from the gacha companies, these cards never hit the market again” “Gamble, sell back, gamble, sell back, gamble, sell back” “The gacha companies never have to sell inventory because they make 15% on every gamble and sell back. The actual gamblers never let the inventory hit the market because they just sell back”

I believe we now have evidence of FIFA's World Cup ticketing shell game: FIFA is colluding with third-party resale platforms for its own supply management. Look at this SeatGeek map (secondary market!) for Saudi Arabia vs Cape Verde. The circled areas are not random single resale tickets, but large, contiguous blocks of seats: entire rows and swaths in sections 101/102, 112/113, 119/120, 134–137, 139, ... The blue circles appeared weeks ago, then the purple blocks suddenly showed up a day or two ago, and the red blocks seem to have appeared recently too. That's not what ordinary fan or even commercial scalper resale looks like who resell pairs, fours, and scattered seats. Instead, this looks like inventory being dumped in bulk onto secondary markets, at prices below FIFA's official site. Why doesn't FIFA just lower prices on its own site Probably because official price cuts could trigger refund demands, chargebacks, or consumer-protection headaches from fans who already bought at much higher prices. Instead FIFA keeps official prices high, avoids openly admitting the market-clearing price is lower, and moves unsold inventory through third-party resale platforms instead.