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You are essentially performing arbitrage.

For the person who has a little more money, but not enough patience or planning to login to the ticket website at 10am, actors like the commenter are creating wealth for this person.




But if the ticket scalper hadn't been scraping the ticket website at 10am in the first place, the ticket would still be on sale.

(Okay, it likely would've gone to someone else who got there after 10 but before the customer. But now you're cheating that person out of the ticket they otherwise would've had. Still zero-sum.)


Insert Inigo Montoya quote here.




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