Tickets do not vanish because 20,000 people were faster than you. Most of them were never offered, and software took a large share of what was left.

The face price is never the price. A practical guide to why concert fees balloon at checkout, and the handful of moves that actually shrink them.

A Green Day ticket that hit A$500 mid-queue, an Oasis onsale that rose by hundreds of pounds - dynamic pricing turned buying a concert ticket into a live auction. Here's how it works and why it persists.