Tick Tact Dough

“As frenzied as fan conversations about the best way to buy tickets can be, the advice in Book of Resell makes them look downright legible. Various strategies include: using five different credit cards tied to different email addresses to get five different presale codes from five different merch purchases; borrowing a handful of phones with a handful of Ticketmaster accounts from a handful of siblings; buying $10 burner phones on eBay and setting them up with ultra-cheap phone plans; timing the burner phones as they move through less competitive ticket queues to see if one happens to be, for whatever reason, a little faster.” There aren’t as many bots trying to beat you to those concert tickets. But there are still a lot of humans. The Atlantic: The New Ticket Scalpers Are Young, Unashamed, and Very Online. (That may be true. But ain’t nobody stopping this guy from scoring prime seats to the Doobie Brothers reunion tour…)

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