Hardly. As someone that works for a broker, it is exceedingly hard to get verified fan to work at scale, and you burn that account and work put into it after it's used. I know a broker that was buying access to gmail accounts that had been around a long time, facebook accounts with lots of activity, and using AT&T phones to get the verified fan SMS. The cost was about $40 for the gmail/facebook accounts, not including the phones. According to him, both accounts and the phone number are basically unusable for verified fan afterwards. That's not a system that scales easily for brokers, and even if they scale costs them a lot to implement, which means it's only useful on things you're sure will go up quite a lot in value.
In short, it's not what I would call a lottery for scalpers.
Combined with Amex's new tour limits for amex presales (not on all tours), where they limit you to two purchases per tour per person owning an amex (doesn't matter if you have 10 cards, two orders total), and the fact that they heavily fingerprint to identify and and wedge up brokers by putting in waiting rooms, and I find the idea from the article that the primary market department of Ticketmaster is actively working with brokers at any scale laughable. It's an arms race between the people that are entirely willing to ignore the AUP and TOS (there's a spectrum here) and Ticketmaster, and has been for years.
In short, it's not what I would call a lottery for scalpers.
Combined with Amex's new tour limits for amex presales (not on all tours), where they limit you to two purchases per tour per person owning an amex (doesn't matter if you have 10 cards, two orders total), and the fact that they heavily fingerprint to identify and and wedge up brokers by putting in waiting rooms, and I find the idea from the article that the primary market department of Ticketmaster is actively working with brokers at any scale laughable. It's an arms race between the people that are entirely willing to ignore the AUP and TOS (there's a spectrum here) and Ticketmaster, and has been for years.