Okay. I get it. It's a business and an industry: people need to make money, and ticket sales organizers are no different.
But this is some serious Bullsh*t-- tickets go on sale for a small venue with limited tickets at 12pm, and are *IMMEDIATELY* sold out online and over the phone. Customer reps at Live Nation take a century to answer the phone, and when you finally get them, they blandly read out what you can see for yourself on your own frikkin computer screen.

Okay. It's possible. A band like Alice in Chains playing a club venue is going to be in BIG demand.

But some please explain to me then why at 12:15PM, there were whole groups of tickets, ranging from 2, 4 and 11 pack sets of tickets for sale on eBay and Craigslist and Stub-hub for FIVE TIMES the ticket's face value?!?!?!

There are Skeevy middle men making money off the band and off the fans.

Alice in Chains, and other bands who have a contract with Live Nation need to get their management to peg tickets at a higher price. Don't say tickets are for $26.00, because guess what: your loving fans are going to have to shell out at least a $100 anyway, paying skeevy gits. We would rather pay you.