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There's the infamous "Garth mode" (named after Garth Brooks), where the inventory for multiple performances in the same venue is effectively consolidated into o
by cbsmith 3y ago
There's the infamous "Garth mode" (named after Garth Brooks), where the inventory for multiple performances in the same venue is effectively consolidated into one pseudo-event. Some of the performances are kept in reserve, and they turn the individual performances on and off in real-time to spread out demand across performances and also ensure they provide enough inventory fulfill all demand (it just murders the resellers).
- cbsmith 3y agoSeriously, even TM can't replace TM. ;-) They keep buying ticketing companies in hopes of ditching all their technical debt and switching to a new ticketing platform. Every time they try to do it, they fail. So most tickets for concerts in the US are still sold with a program that runs assembly code running on a VAX emulator.