Protests Planned Outside Ed Sheeran's Philadelphia Concert as Ticket Prices Drop

Here’s the number nobody mentions: those “platinum” seats were never scarce. Ticketmaster just painted a resale markup onto unsold inventory and called it demand. When the algorithm finally blinks, the same seat costs 60% less — overnight, no apology, no refund for whoever paid full freight. Protests didn’t drop these prices. Arithmetic did. The whole “supply and demand” sermon was a spreadsheet with a markup.