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There are really good ways to solve it. Tie the tickets to names to disallow resale (have you heard of plane tickets being scalped?), or sell at the market clea

• aestetix 6y ago
  That doesn't work. If you make the tickets non-transferrable, then it prevents last minute ticket swaps, and will piss off people and cause a PR nightmare. Plus you have to deal with fake IDs, expired IDs, name changes, etc. And many events cater to people who'd rather not have their legal names associated with an event for a wide variety of reasons. If you want them to be transferrable, then you have to set up an exchange like Burning Man did to manage them, and it requires a ton of staff overhead that takes away from dealing with the event itself. And creates the risk that a database full of your attendees personal information could get hacked. I can't speak for Ticketmaster, as I have not used it very much, and none of the events I listed use it either.
  • ulucs 6y ago
    You could make the tickets refundable if you don't want to piss off people not being able to go last second. I'd also say making scalping into a felony (by requiring forged ID's) is a very good place compared to where we started. Also you don't have to tie it to an id, just pick something that is personal and can't change hands easily. Be it phones, old enough accounts (steam for example), emails which have been subscribed long enough. Hell, plant an underskin chip if you're doing a distopian cyberpunk convention.