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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Daisy Dumas

Green Day in Sydney for $500 – is dynamic pricing reserving live music for the rich?

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Dynamic pricing is increasingly prevalent in entertainment, with Australian fans of Pearl Jam and now Green Day paying variously inflated amounts depending on when they bought their concert tickets. Photograph: Graham Denholm/Getty Images

Dynamic ticket pricing helps combat ticket scalpers, the company behind $500 Green Day tickets claims – but music industry insiders and consumer groups dispute that, with some concerned the controversial practice skews live events to the rich.

Dynamic pricing – when the cost of products rise and fall according to demand – is well established in Australia, from Uber’s surge prices to utilities and airline fares.

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