This is why I haven't seen a U2 show since 2005. When I saw three guys walk away from the selling booth (it was before online sales only) holding 6 tickets each and I just knew 2/3rds of those tickets were going to be on auctions sites that same afternoon, that's when I knew the system was broken. And it was pointless to try and get U2 tickets in the future. And everything I heard since proves to me that the system is only getting worse.
I think we should stop going to concerts altogether, until these bands get it that we're fed up with this broken system. Being a fan doesn't mean having to be a walking ATM machine for the artist and all the other leeches in the music industry to gorge upon. Because we're fans and we have to support the artists. Within reason that is, cause I want to support the artist but not be taken advantage of. Reasonable prices, no scalping, a functional way to sell available tickets. If these reasonable demands cannot be met, because neither bands nor live nation are interested in tackling this, then too bad for the bands, we shouldn't be seeing them anymore. In order to save the village you have to be willing to burn it. That's how you win wars. And we are in a war, where Live Nation have seen that suckers (a.k.a. fans) are willing to pay double digits for 2nd hand tickets, so why cut out the middle man and raise those prices to double digits already. We will be squeezed, and squeezed, and squeezed. And they will keep doing it until the market finally collapses and people stop going to concerts. And then bands will have ruined their last remaining source of revenue.
//end of rant, off the soap box now.