In addition, the report finds that resellers assume the risk of reselling tickets, thereby enabling venues and promoters to be assured that their event is a financial success.
Overall, these resellers are pursuing a business that initially looks like traditional reselling, but in fact works along different lines.
An obvious place to cut was in the use of third-party resellers, who have enjoyed healthy margins in the UK compared with elsewhere in Europe.
Accounting sleuths have concluded that Autonomy bloated its software sales by dressing up revenue from "negative-margin, low-end" hardware and by prematurely counting sales through resellers, a practice known as "channel-stuffing".
The stock may come from independent shops in Europe, or in some cases from the brands themselves, which pass goods on to independent resellers.
Paul Oakenfold, a member of the Resale Rights Society and one of the world's highest-paid DJs, says: "If the government is not going to outlaw online ticket resellers, it's time to join in and engage with the secondary marketeers".
While the Justice Department does not comment on current investigations, according to some reports it is looking at possible anti-competitive problems which the two joint ventures might pose.The big music companies have been criticised for moving too slowly into the distribution of music online and for being unwilling to license music to smaller distributors and resellers.
In Texas, its rates are up to two-thirds higher than AT&T's (though not as high as those charged by some other resellers of telecoms services).Callers elsewhere will soon have the chance to cross lines with KTNT.
Ticketmaster, the ticketing agency in Los Angeles which sells roughly half of all tickets to big events in America, developed a creative legal argument in a bid to shut down resellers it felt were earning unfair profits on tickets Ticketmaster had originally sold.
And they prefer to buy software directly, instead of through resellers, Novell's traditional sales channel a change, Mr Schmidt says, that his company has yet to digest fully.But there is more to it than that.
And debt is still debt, whoever is lending the money.Some new entrants are compensating for the delayed launch of 3G by becoming "virtual operators", or resellers, for other firms' existing 2G networks.
