The scalper issue would go away if tickets were auctioned off instead in order to find the actual equilibrium price. I know that this is a solution that some of

The scalper issue would go away if tickets were auctioned off instead in order to find the actual equilibrium price. I know that this is a solution that some of these only platforms considered. Nothing ever happened. However, now they are marketplaces and the ticket gets sold twice which means the platform gets commission twice. So no scalpers made money on the delta between sticker price and equilibrium and the platform for commission twice. All that is money that the artist and venue aren't seeing. Just do auctions! Edit: The reservations also weren't free. For several restaurants I've had to figure out at what time new reservation open up, set an alarm and then still sometimes not get a seat because it's already booked out. When I traveled to Spain we had one place we called late at night our time to get a reservation. None of that is free. I'd happily paid extra to avoid this trouble and beer certain that I can go to the restaurants for which I'm traveling to another continent.