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Legalizing scalping will drive up ticket prices and only benefit those selling the tickets and the very rich who can afford to go at whatever price. It will result in scalpers further hoarding tickets and preventing the average fan from attending.

Scalpers would be forced to go out of business and get REAL jobs that can actually help the economy instead of hurt it in one year. All that has to happen is for NOBODY to pay more than $10.00 over ticket stub price. Venues don't just WANT to be filled, they NEED to be filled, for the inside sales. Things would change fast, if venues were less than half full, and scalpers were stuck with tens of thousands of tickets they couldn't sell.

I can't believe the NC legislature is actually considering this bill. It doesn't help anybody but the sports franchises and the ticket-scalping leaches! Have any of these idiots been on TicketsNow or StubHub and seen the outrageous prices these sites charge? They claim these are market prices, but they use their computerized systems to hoard all the tickets and jack up the prices so the casual fan has no access. There's no way NC law enforcement agencies can enforce the part of this bill that prevents the scalper leaches from using their computers to buy all tickets within minutes.

The scalpers claim to offer the "service" of providing hard-to-find tickets to people. They don't tell you that they are the reason these tickets are hard to find.

The claim that ticket prices might actually go down is complete BS. Look on StubHub or TicketsNow and show me a single ticket that is lower than face value.

As for the few season ticket holders that will now be able to sell some unused tickets easier...this is a weak weak claim. I own season tickets and never have a problem finding people to buy my unused tickets. If a season ticket holder has too many tickets to get rid of, then he/she maybe shouldn't buy season tickets! Why does legislature need a law to help the priveledged few that can afford hundreds (or thousands) of dollars for season tickets? Protect the common man who can now afford to see a game a season, but if they're forced to pay scalper prices they won't get even one!

Absolutely do not allow scalpers to legally sell tickets at the obscene prices they charge. Instead the NC AG should agressively go after those who do. The minute we start enforcing our laws this market will dry up. It will cut back on the organizations that go out and buy hundreds if not thousands of tickets from the original venue with the sole idea of charging these high prices.