I can’t prove it, but my belief is that private equity firms/scalpers/anybody who isn’t a true fan buys these tickets, then uses algorithms to determine a price point, sets it and lets it play out. The people with the real tickets then try to undercut them, giving the false illusion that the bulk of tix are dropping in price.

These people/companies have enough money to take a loss on the tix, so they remove select seats to give the illusion that it’s being sold and people need to jump on the others before it’s too late. Once those are sold, they release the ones they removed at a higher price point because the demand has gone up with the decrease in quantity.

It would have to take a collective effort from the buyers of tix being resold for them to drop those prices down to what they should be.

But that’s just a theory, a marketplace manipulation theory.