You might be thinking that asking her to pay for both of them would even be a stretch and that it might be nicer for the young couple to go together, maybe asking her to pay for half of the costs, including the price of her own ticket. But, not only was he not interested in accepting face value for the tickets, but he had his sites set on selling them for double what he paid for them, applying frat-bro Econ 101 logic to an ethical issue and seeing nothing but dollar signs where he could have perhaps been considering his partner.
It’s been a while since I’ve seen an opinion on one of these posts that was so resoundingly one-sided, and we’ll be surprised if he’s in a relationship for much longer after this.