The Dance

Interesting discussion. Couple of things I don't really understand though.

John says that if an artist, out of a sense of fairness, doesn't price their tickets high enough to mitigate inflated prices on the secondary ticket market, then they're basically giving money to the touts instead of everyone who is responsible for putting the event on, including themselves. However, he and Elis say a couple of times that they generally want to take the ticket price down when talking to tour promoters for their own shows. Is this just because the promoter has miscalculated demand?

Second, the implication is that there is not really any way of guaranteeing an affordable price in these situations, because if you set the price too low then touts will scoop them up and sell them for a sizeable profit. But what about Glastonbury? Sure some people get in illegally, but the tickets are very hard to sell on, and while the ticket allocation is a gamble, it doesn't seem to cause as much pain as the the scenario Elis described, where you can be waiting in a queue for hours to the price to shoot to or the website to crash.