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Instead of banning resale, why not just allow resale at face value? The French open(tennis) does this and makes it possible to still get tickets at a reasonable

• kazinator 3y ago
  Because you don't handle the money. If A shows up to the concert with tickets originally purchased by B, you have no idea how much A paid. Banning resale is not about selling per se but banning the changing of ownership. The person who paid is verified to be the one attending.
  • mym1990 3y ago
    What? In my example, Person B buys the change of ownership from person A at face value...its pretty clear how much they each paid. Absolutely no resale is just shifting the risk to the consumer, and affecting the 99% of people who want to see a good show. If the agency takes away the profit of resale, while still collecting a small fee on change of ownership, and allows customers to have flexibility in changing circumstances...its a win win win.
    • kazinator 3y ago
      > its pretty clear how much they each paid By what surveillance method is this? Or you mean there is a locked down trading platform, and only there can tickets be traded? What prevents additional money from changing hands via an off-platform backchannel? A law could discourage that, like the one in Norway your sibling comment pointed out.
  • matsemann 3y ago
    In Norway it's by law not legal to resell tickets at a higher price. That means that all listings on reputable buy/sell sites will immediately be taken down if you try. It of course still happens, but in a smaller scale. You can't base a business around it, exactly.
• chpatrick 3y ago
  In Hungary the best resale platform is TicketSwap and they only allow selling up to 10% or so more than face value, I think that's a good system.