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Ticket Scalping - An American History, 1850-2005 (Paperback)
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Ticket Scalping - An American History, 1850-2005 (Paperback)
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Ticket scalping is as much an American staple as apple pie.
Beginning as early as the mid - 1800s, scalpers, known as
""sidewalk men,"" were charging all the traffic would bear for
event tickets. Although these speculators were generally viewed as
pariah and public opinion was against the practice, legal attempts
to limit their activities were far from successful. Boston enacted
laws as early as 1873, while Pennsylvania followed suit in 1884.
Still, such measures did little good since some laws were declared
unconstitutional and, for the ones that were upheld, the fines were
negligible with jail time rarely served. Over the years, as moral
objections to scalping dimmed, the public became more tolerant as
the practice became increasingly prevalent. By the 1950s, the
capitalist mantras of free market and economic principles of supply
and demand were even being used to justify the practice. This
volume details the ways in which scalping has changed over the
years from a one-man business to an agency-controlled enterprise,
from performances by Jenny Lind to Billy Joel. The book examines
the general situation, public opinion and legal perception of
scalping for four distinct periods: 1850-1899; 1900-1917; 1918-1949
and 1950-2005. Emphasis is placed on the ways in which public and
legal perception of the practice has evolved over this period.
Scalping, slowly gaining a more positive status, has become more
accepted as part of the economic practice of free market.
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