A true fan is probably pissed off already that some rich bastard is in the good seats that they couldn’t get. The idea is to give the true fan a chance of getti

A true fan is probably pissed off already that some rich bastard is in the good seats that they couldn’t get. The idea is to give the true fan a chance of getting a good seat while breaking the economics of scalping. There is no reason the allocation has to be 50-50. It could be 90-10 where the tickets are basically sold a little over the cheap price, but you have a chance on the night of being in the front row. The true fan is going to dream that they will be the lucky ones. The group issue could be solved in a number of ways, but the simplest would be to just sell the tickets in blocks and allocate the blocks to the good or to the cheap seats. Somewhat related to this topic the best concert I ever went to was the OK Computer tour by Radiohead (in 1998 from memory). A couple of friends and I decided at the last moment to go to the venue and hope that we could get some tickets off a scalper. Just as we arrived Radiohead released about 50 extra seats at rock bottom prices (less than $30) via the main ticket office. We end up in the second row of what was one of the concerts of the decade :)