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Complete speculation, but I would guess that in many cases the company/organisation running the conference would want lots of people to come (e.g. for marketing
by jcparkyn 4y ago
Complete speculation, but I would guess that in many cases the company/organisation running the conference would want lots of people to come (e.g. for marketing or hiring purposes), even if they could increase total ticket revenue by raising prices.
Selling expensive tickets is also bad PR, which might be worth more to the organisers than the extra ticket revenue.
- iamkroot 4y agoI've always figured you could just do an auction. Say you have 500 tickets. You give everyone who wants to go 48 hours to submit how much they're willing to pay for a ticket. At the end of the time period the 500 people whose bids were the highest all get the tickets. You could publish the current price of the tickets during the bidding time frame and allow people to modify their bids at any point. The final price would be whatever the 500th lowest bid was. In the event of a tie, choose randomly among the people tied for 500th. I imagine this would be greeted with complaints about how it gives the rich an advantage, but I can't think of a fairer way to distribute tickets that also avoids the scalper problem.