In Hard Times, Artists Try Scalping Their Own Concert Tickets
Less than a minute after tickets for last August’s Neil Diamond concerts at New York’s Madison Square Garden went on sale, more than 100 seats were available for hundreds of dollars more than their normal face value on premium-ticket site TicketExchange.com.
The seller? Neil Diamond.
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