I don’t know if I buy the premise of the article. We were able to have an opportunity to buy tickets after being waitlisted (I think it was 48-72hrs after the initial presale). But the tickets were extremely expensive. Ticketmaster was scalping not the scalpers.
We did buy Taylor Swift tickets for next year however it was $1k for three tickets.
If I understand correctly, the definition of scalping is to buy and sell quickly in the hope of a profit. Ticketmaster is the originator of the tickets (it is not reselling from anyone else), so it cannot be a scalper.
You can't just make up meanings and assume that scalping means selling at an uncomfortably high price.
We did buy Taylor Swift tickets for next year however it was $1k for three tickets.