http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/...

The above article should cure you once and for all.

"AEG Live, the company behind the concerts, has agreed with Viagogo, an online ticket reseller, to sell hundreds of so-called premium tickets for each performance at the 17,000-capacity O2 arena, in East London, at about £500 each, compared with their face value of between £50 and £75.

The move means that both AEG Live and Viagogo stand to make huge extra financial returns, while reducing the availability and standard of seats to those fans trying to buy seats through the official, “primary” route, via the Ticketmaster website."

There's loads of things I love about AEG's attitude in the article, from the talk of "real fans" and "to ensure fans are able to purchase premium tickets and exchange tickets directly with other fans" - except of course those fans could never have bought those tickets to exchange because they never went on sale in the general pool.

Pathetic, and the kind of behaviour that would have people up in arms in any other industry.

And no, I'm not a Jacko fan who missed out, but I do go to a hell of a lot of live shows. My thought on the solution to this is very, very simple - it'll never work, but it's simple...

Don't buy them. Tell your friends not to buy them. Go to fan sites and organise a boycott. Leave them with a house full of empty 'premium' seats and no option but to sell them at a reasonable price or have Jacko staring out at a half empty venue.

Give them the proverbial middle finger. It's idiots actually buying them that allow them to get away with it. So don't.