Scalpers drive Harry Potter play prices from £140 to £8,327
by Cory Doctorow from on (#1QFBT)
What do you get when you combine fantastic wealth-inequality with winner-take-all entertainment economics and high-speed trading algorithms? The Viagogo marketplace, where botmasters who've harvested every available ticket for the new Harry Potter play, Harry Potter & the Cursed Child are auctioning them off to the war-criminals and financiers who've colonized London since the Blair years -- with Viagogo trousering a healthy 1,772.53 transaction fee on each ticket. (more")