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> I have never yet seen a system that cannot be beat by scalpers, including paperless ticketing, I have seen such a system. A festival near me has a limited nu
by TwiztidK 10y ago
> I have never yet seen a system that cannot be beat by scalpers, including paperless ticketing,
I have seen such a system. A festival near me has a limited number of tickets available each year (due to site and staff restrictions) with surprisingly high demand. Their solution is to do a lottery that gives people an opportunity to buy tickets, requiring the name of each individual ticket recipient at purchase, then they match the names on each ticket to IDs at the gates. The only way to defeat this system is with fake ids.
- austenallred 10y agoI can think of a half dozen ways to beat that, at varying levels of legality
- droopyEyelids 10y agoGo on... You're describing something that's incredibly puzzling and leaving everyone's curiosity burning!
- ams6110 10y agoSell by auction. Let buyers bid up to the natural market value. Avoid sniping by running it like a real auction: having no fixed ending time and only finalizing a sale when there have been no bids for a period of time to be sure everyone has a chance to bid up to whatever it's worth to them.
- cgag 10y agoBut I want tickets below market value. It's only fair I should have them.
- austenallred 10y agoOk that actually works, but market value will change drastically over time, and fans would be in an uproar
- Chris2048 10y ago> fans would be in an uproar fans who don't pay top-dollar. Why not focus on fans who do?
- austenallred 10y agoyou're preaching to the choir
- christofosho 10y agoDepending on the event, this could make things worse for the arts. Society is seeing a decline in arts attendance in terms of the "older styles" such as theatre and lesser listened to genres (jazz, classical). I'm no expert, but high prices only deem to pull the "common folk" away from events, away from culture. Imagine if people were attending more events, experiencing more diversity, more art. Culture would probably be a bit less two-sided (in my opinion).
- Chris2048 10y ago> Imagine if people were attending more events, experiencing more diversity If more is being paid for tickets, this will encourage more events. Are you suggesting a small, wealthy population repeatedly go to the same events? How could would reducing prices cause "experiencing more diversity", when every ticket redirected to one person, deprives another.
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- TwiztidK 10y agoSure, but the group that runs the festival doesn't want to raise ticket prices.