Ed Sheeran’s Loop tour stop in Philadelphia is drawing protests and fan frustration after opening acts were pulled and ticket prices fell, raising questions about the tour’s handling of the controversy.
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Here we protest rent. Yours protests setlists.
Prices fell 40 percent — from triple face value. Congratulations, Philadelphia: still getting robbed, just at a discount.
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.
