What's the difference when it comes to scalping event tickets?

Question

How can brokers buy a bunch of event tickets, from a place like Ticketmaster, get on line and sell them to the public for double, or even sometimes, triple the price, they originally bought the ticket for. But yet if you get caught scalping tickets on a parking lot, you stand the risk of getting arrest. What's the difference?

Answer 1

Scalping tix has been legal for exactly a year and one month this pcoming monday....don't sweat it