Teacher Liu, I wanted to buy a ticket for a concert last night, but it sold out as soon as sales opened.

Popular performances are often like that. Did you see any tickets on other platforms afterward?

Yes, but they were much more expensive. I was also wondering how some people could buy so many tickets.

Some of them are ticket scalpers. They don't necessarily click manually; some use ticket-grabbing software, also called 'plugins'.

So it wasn't because they were faster, but because they used software? No wonder ordinary people can't compete.

That's right. Recently, some ticket-grabbing groups were penalized for using software to obtain tickets and then reselling them at higher prices.

That doesn't sound like ordinary buying and selling anymore. It affects a lot of people trying to buy tickets.

Exactly. If they also secretly obtain data from ticketing websites, and the circumstances are serious, it may even be illegal.

Then I'll stick to buying from official platforms. If I can't get a ticket, so be it. I don't want to support scalpers by paying inflated prices.