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I'm curious, is there a lottery-based alternative to TicketMaster? Or an option to use lottery rather than FCFS within TicketMaster? If not, I think that woul
by teaspoon 16y ago
I'm curious, is there a lottery-based alternative to TicketMaster? Or an option to use lottery rather than FCFS within TicketMaster?
If not, I think that would be a great project for a handful of enterprising engineers. There would be some legal and payment-related related problems to solve, I'm sure, as well as whatever barriers are supporting TicketMaster's current monopoly. But if there were ever a foothold for a new contender to take them on, this seems like it.
- kgrin 16y agoa) The barriers supporting Ticketmaster's current monopoly are pretty significant - mainly, exclusivity deals with venues. Ironically, the most successful challenge thus far has come from LiveNation... which managed to one-up Ticketmaster in some markets by owning both venues and artists. (And is now trying to merge with Ticketmaster, pending fairly blatant antitrust issues). b) Interesting sidenote: in its day, Ticketmaster was the tech-savvy upstart, aggressively competing on both the business and tech side with the then-dominant Ticketron. (That's not to say that they're not a monopolist ripe for the picking...)