How Much Do Ticket Fees and Resale Markups Cost Fans?
Vanderbilt Policy Accelerator estimates that above-face-value resale markups and what it defines as excess ticket-platform fees add about $11.3 billion to U.S. fans’ live-event costs each year. The August 2026 paper combines several datasets to produce that estimate; it does not report a direct count of every ticket transaction. The total has two parts: an …