Ech

More like “blatantly outright wrong ‘solutions’”.

“Can’t have shit on the North Lawn.”

No. They’re quite imaginable for anyone paying attention, and obvious outcomes of the choices made by him and his cronies.

No idea, but I doubt it costs nothing to facilitate a secure transfer. And if scalpers are ever going to be deterred, systems like this will be necessary and have costs to do so. Obviously that’s not why TM takes their cut, but it will be an expense even in an ideal system.

TM itself can fuck off, but a ticket supplier is providing a service, and transferring tickets is part of that service. Unless the seller is literally just handing physical tickets off to a buyer, the mediating service is using resources to facilitate the transfer, which costs them money.