Pricing had lots of factors and you don't want to lock pricing to a specific model only to solve this problem. Why not design such that simply prevents resellin

Pricing had lots of factors and you don't want to lock pricing to a specific model only to solve this problem. Why not design such that simply prevents reselling? From the article: > What’s more, fans won’t be able to resell their tickets [...] This works great for air travel so why not concerts as well? The reason it's not common must be because of collusion or side business with scalping services (which we know that e.g. ticket master has done). Checking an ID card is easy. > [...] unless they go through the Eventim-distributed website fanSALE This is potentially dangerous. Scalpers can still transfer ownership for an out-of-bounds payment. So this isn't exactly waterproof. Here's how I would do it: - 2 days before release, anyone can sign up to buy tickets. Name and payment details are required and put in escrow or on CC hold (weak rate limit). They are put in an unordered set (no bot advantage) - at release time, assign tickets those in the set until you run out of tickets. - create a queue for the remaining tickets. The unlucky ones who didn't get tickets in the former step are moved to the queue (again in random order). Others can also join the queue, but this time order is maintained, for fairness[1]. - You can leave the queue anytime and get your escrow money back. In this case, you cannot choose who will get your ticket, it goes to the person who is first in line. This doesn't solve all intricacies like group bookings, different kinds of tickets etc, but that should be solvable without breaking this scheme. [1]: Technically you can just keep the unordered set, but you cannot just make returned tickets available suddenly, because of bot advantage)