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Non-transferable tickets seem to me to be a simple solution. But people want be able to sell their tickets. So now we are stuck with high ticket prices.
by postalrat 4y ago
Non-transferable tickets seem to me to be a simple solution. But people want be able to sell their tickets.
So now we are stuck with high ticket prices.
- Scoundreller 4y agoCash at the door? Or physical tickets sold around town the day of? People have a love/hate relationship with the frenzy I guess.
- raldi 4y agoCash at the door would just mean endless lines — people paying with their time instead of their money, and the value of that time is just wasted rather than captured by the seller.
- Scoundreller 4y ago$40 exact change in $20 bills will be faster than scanning barcodes.
- michaelt 4y agoConcert tickets sold like flight tickets - provide a full name for every ticket booked, at booking time. Queue up at the venue to have your ticket checked against your passport.
- matwood 4y agoThey would also need to be market priced, like airline tickets.
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- dagw 4y agoThat's great for locals, but doesn't really work for people who have to travel several hours and book a hotel to get to somewhere where many of the bands I want to see play. For people like us having a guaranteed ticket far in advance is important.
- svachalek 4y agoYup, I think if any act was really passionate about selling cheap tickets this is the way. But it is intentionally defying the way markets work, the current problem is not because bands or TicketMaster are charging too much, it's that people are willing to pay these prices.
- cwmma 4y agoWhat radiohead did with Ticket Trust is probably the right balance, they made it so you could resell the paperless tickets, but only through Ticket Trust which didn't allow you to resell them for above face value.