Why does he care if tickets are scalped? If he and the promoter agree on a price a year in advance - and ticket buyers agree and sell it out - then why should anyone care if someone can flip the ticket later?
When you buy a ticket way in advance, you are doing the promoter and the artist, or the football team, etc, a favor - because you are buying their product at their asking price. Win win.
Later on, as the event nears, the ticket may rise or fall in value. So what? It’s the market at work.
IOW, he’s lying.
It has nothing to do with scalping and everything to do with no one buying a ticket. If you are going to tell a lie, tell a big one.
I know some artists hate scalpers making a buck or more on their shows but not many cancel shows for this reason. The item says exorbitant prices so who knows maybe they figure they can reschedule with higher prices. The other “lucky” cities are Toronto, Upper Darby Pa, Boston, Chicago, San Fran and LA according to one ticket website.
That being said, I still get a kick out of scalpers getting stuck with a whole pile of tickets when they overestimate the desirability of their event.
Eddie Vedder always whined about scalpers and ticketmaster
I bet Lars Ulrich hated scalpers too...money grubber he is