Triple‑dip ticket fees fuel scalping

The FTC says Ticketmaster/Live Nation collects fees three times—on brokers’ initial buys, on brokers’ resales, and on fans’ purchases—creating a built‑in profit motive to tolerate scalpers. If true, enforcement should target fee structures, not just bot detection, because the business model rewards the problem. — It reframes ticketing abuses as an incentive‑design failure where platform revenue models can undermine consumer protection and competition.