Why You Can't Get Tickets

Why You Can't Get TicketsIs it a conspiracy? You against the insidersYou can always get tickets to a hot concert or a big game—this is America, after all—but it likely won't be easy or cheap. No matter how badly you want that $75 Bruce Springsteen ticket, there are thousands of middlemen who want it more. To them it's a $275 Springsteen ticket because that's what they can get for it on the "secondary market." So they hammer Ticketmaster.com with computer orders the minute a show goes o...