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Isn't a better system to just hold a lottery? Yes, maybe now you have fans with dedication, but it just feels like an enormous waste of time for everyone to be

• cornholio 9y ago
  Do I have to pay to play the lottery? If that case, it's practically equivalent to a ticket price of (lottery price)*(probability of winning), so you haven't really solved anything, the scalpers will buy many lottery tickets. Double more so if the lottery is free, then the price becomes expressed as the grinding of multiple identities, straw buyers, etc. into fooling the system to give them more chances; scalpers are even better positioned to game a free lottery since they have the economies of scale to produce a very large number of straw identities. Any friction you introduce other than "being a fan" is just a convoluted way to hide the real market prices, and that's exactly the margin where scalpers operate. As for "being a fan", it's very hard to quantify and operationalize.
  • Can_Not 9y ago
    Would a limit of 2 per verified cellphone or 5 per credit card fix this?
    • godelski 9y ago
      Well what are you trying to fix? What are you trying to do? Profit maximize? Or ensure that only people that are going to watch the concert buy tickets?
    • KozmoNau7 9y ago
      As mentioned in the article, the scalpers have hundreds of credit cards, and could buy large amounts of burner phones as well.