Randy Nichols

@SoonerFletch @JamesSkoufis @politicony Look at his donations, it’s publicly available. He lost donations from secondary and didn’t pick up any from our side as we don’t have the budgets like you guys. Your side has almost no operational expenses compared to artists. Look at CA $4M to $0 so far this year!

@JamesSkoufis @politicony Turncoat James I was wondering when you would pop back up! You were on the other side until someone wrote you a check. 🤡

There are very few 80-20 issues left in politics today. Capping the resale of concert tickets is one of them, per today’s @politicony Let’s get it done over the next few weeks, New York.

@LewisBay3 Agreed and to be fair, I’ve had calls and meals with more people fighting with me here than most would believe

@forcemm Thanks for the response. I think best solutions can only come when folks start talking and stop name calling, so I don't agree with names being thrown your way either. Way too much binary propaganda right now. No industry issues are gonna get solved that way.

The National Association of Ticket Brokers rebranded at the National association of ticket professionals, yet it’s all still scalpers they represent. Love the new name though! NATP = National Association of Ticket Parasites

@LewisBay3 Happy to do that too, in the meantime we can have a silly laugh as well. While people call me names nonstop I do agree there is no need for it from any of us

@forcemm Most people stopped name calling to get laughs in 3rd grade. I'd rather see you debate the NATP on their positions (that you clearly disagree with) than resort to this type of infantile mud slinging.

@SoonerFletch @imalecrobinson @andrewmcmahon Thank you for your service

@forcemm @imalecrobinson @andrewmcmahon What I’m saying is you have no clue how many tickets brokers buy that end up getting sold for less than face value. Many of the events would be EMPTY. Why are you so afraid of choice for consumers? Why does America scare you? Why do you hate supply and demand ?

Why do the scalpers feel they have a right to make decisions on tickets rather than the person onstage? Thank you @andrewmcmahon for taking a stand for all fans washingtoncitypaper.com/article/785660…

@TheTicketTruth Not the National Association of Ticket Predators

@forcemm Randy who is paying your bills now?

@SoonerFletch @imalecrobinson @andrewmcmahon So what you're saying is that without your money losing bets, our business will be damaged? We need you to lose money to survive? That's some logic right there!

@forcemm @imalecrobinson @andrewmcmahon You will also sell way way way less tickets. WAY. Your gross would go down eliminating the secondary market.

I'll be on the @ThatEricAlper show on @SiriusXMCanada this weekend, talking predatory ticketing It can be heard on Channel 167 this Sat 8am, 2pm, 7pm, Sun 12pm, 8pm, Wed 2pm, All ET on @SIRIUSXM , and On Demand any time on the SiriusXM app.

@SoonerFletch @imalecrobinson @andrewmcmahon Why would they raise the price when they no longer need to prevent outsiders arbitrage opportunity? Wouldn’t they want to list tix at a higher price now while you’re extracting value? This is a fatal flaw in your argument. A primary price at or above market value shuts you out

@forcemm @imalecrobinson @andrewmcmahon Because the artists/primary will raise face price we have seen this movie

@SoonerFletch @imalecrobinson @andrewmcmahon Ok, so then we aren’t greedy and looking to rip off the fans of your vision of is selling less tickets is true

@SoonerFletch @imalecrobinson @andrewmcmahon You aren’t increasing choice, you don’t create tickets. You buy tix and mark them up. Sometimes you lose and they sell cheaper. That’s not creating competition, it’s turning someone else’s inventory into a commodity. Until you create a competing inventory your not competition

@forcemm @imalecrobinson @andrewmcmahon That is not what will happen and you know that. Less choices leads to higher costs it happens in every controlled industry.

@DoucheCanoe42 @superseats @andrewmcmahon No slur, this is the history on the word scalper. decibel.news/p/the-term-sca…

@superseats @forcemm @andrewmcmahon #PaysToWait

@DoucheCanoe42 @imalecrobinson @SoonerFletch @andrewmcmahon So you want government protection rather than true capitalism?

@forcemm @imalecrobinson @SoonerFletch @andrewmcmahon Because we pay for the product. We just want unconditional ownership of what WE buy.

@SoonerFletch @imalecrobinson @andrewmcmahon Explain to me how you’re going to be able to have industrial scale resale grow bigger than $10B a year if marketplaces aren’t allowed to list tix for over 10% of face value?

So again this is about the team producing the event making more money to you! Thank you case closed. You don't give a shit about the consumers just money. Once supply is constricted on secondary the primary bans "authorized resale" will price gouge the public. You will do exactly what you accuse others of.

@imalecrobinson @SoonerFletch @andrewmcmahon This is a rational debate and you’re right the current finance model of touring doesn’t allow for this. Refunds would solve the entire secondary problem though, so we agree there

Price caps are by far the bigger issue, imo. I’m all for allowing artists to control & restrict transferability, just the same as the airline and hotel industry. But, just the same as those industries, the primary ticket seller should be offering refundable options, as they are already currently required by law in some states. But the reality is that will never happen due to the economics of the live music industry.

@SoonerFletch @imalecrobinson @andrewmcmahon Supply and demand. The basics of capitalism. If transferability is limited significantly less tickets trade hands and the limited few sell for more. More money stays with the team producing the event and the scalpers overall gross on the show is smaller, Which is why your against

@forcemm @imalecrobinson @andrewmcmahon No guaranteed transferability helps the consumer! Look at shows with restricted transfer much higher cost for fans to buy on secondary market. Open to transfer shows much more affordable and allows those with a change of plans an exit. But we know you don't care about the fans.

@imalecrobinson @SoonerFletch @andrewmcmahon But your lobbying teams are fighting hard for a transferability mandate in every state. It seems to be their number one issue everywhere. Why should you have laws that force us to give you our product? Isn’t that state controlled biz that you hate?

@forcemm @SoonerFletch @andrewmcmahon It sounds like we have exactly what you want @forcemm . A free market with artist choice on transferability in almost every state with a primary ticketing platform that claims to have the technology to enforce that. The fact that they don’t seems like your biggest issue?

@SoonerFletch @andrewmcmahon How is it anti American to say legislators shouldn’t force product decisions on a company? Companies should be able to control how and where their product is sold. If Dice wants to lock a ticket to their app, they shouldn’t be forced to allow tickets to leave their app

@forcemm @andrewmcmahon LMAO. Restricting transfer and resale is simply a way to eliminate chocies for the market and drive prices up on the general public. It is anti-consumer and anti-American.

@ScottFriedman3 @StubHub He also runs a ticketing hedge fund investing hundreds of millions of dollars in tickets. I’m sure he’s giving preferential treatment to his own tickets before Stubhubs sellers!

The CEO of @StubHub, Eric Baker lives in an alternate universe.