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There is no reason that event tickets couldn't be sold similarly to airline seats.

• rtkwe 1y ago
  Expand on what you mean by that?
  • Zigurd 1y ago
    You can't resell a plane ticket. You can get a credit or cancel the purchase depending on the airline's terms. But there is no secondary market in plane tickets. If you show up at the airport and your ID doesn't match the name on the ticket, the ticket is invalid.
    • 2OEH8eoCRo0 1y ago
      You can also buy plane tickets from a number of providers.
    • rtkwe 1y ago
      Venues don't want to be checking all that at their gates plus they don't want to prevent scalping it's only really the artists and fans who are anti scalping the rest of the parties in the pipeline loooove scalpers.
      • carlosjobim 1y ago
        Venues are already checking IDs at the gate anyway. And it takes less than one second per ticket to scan and verify tickets.
        • rtkwe 1y ago
          I don't remember ever having my ID checked at the door of a concert or show.
    • mandevil 1y ago
      That is a (relatively) new thing, however- at least in the US. Prior to the September 11th security reforms there no ID checks against tickets, and you could resell them. This was so commonplace that one US airline (People's Express) back in the 1980's did all their tickets paid in cash after you boarded. They had no idea who would be on a flight at all until the boarding started! (You can see this in the spoof movie Airplane II: The Sequel from 1982, where our hero boards the Lunar Shuttle buying a ticket from a scalper.) So this policy is younger than Google.
• OscarCunningham 1y ago
  The issue that spawned scalping and Ticketmaster is that musicians want to sell tickets under their market value. There's no analogous issue with airline pricing.
  • Zigurd 1y ago
    What other services, other than musicians operating in a monopoly environment, deserve criticism for under pricing their services? The problem is a market failure, but the musicians didn't cause it.
  • hnuser123456 1y ago
    The issue is that scalpers can buy a significant portion of tickets at initial pricing and artificially drive up demand when the event says they're "sold out". Plus, many events like to set low initial prices to try to get money flowing in earlier, and raise prices closer to the day of the event, which makes them a potential "investment" for people who have no plans to attend.
    • SoftTalker 1y ago
      The demand is the demand. TM should just set the initial price higher. This will discourage scalpers because their return is lower and their risk is higher. Fans will get to see the concert if they are willing to pay. If they aren't, then the price is too high, or the tickets will go to other fans who value them more.
      • hnuser123456 1y ago
        But many concertgoers buy their tickets early specifically to get the discount. The discount over later pricing is a valid marketing tactic. Airlines also raise seat prices closer to the day of the flight to encourage people to buy earlier ahead of time. If Ticketmaster enjoys such market dominance, they become responsible to prevent widespread misuse of their own platform, lest they become negligent. They are owned by livenation which is a public company.
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• reaperducer 1y ago
  There is no reason that event tickets couldn't be sold similarly to airline seats. Charge extra for each armrest. Charge extra for priority entry to the venue. Charge to bring in a purse. Charge to sit next to your family. Charge for adequate leg room. Earn points that become worth less and less as they accumulate.
  • privatelypublic 1y ago
    Sounds like you haven't been to a venue in a while. Your snark is reality for everything but loyalty points.
    • reaperducer 1y ago
      You are correct. The last concert I saw was Genesis at Giants Stadium during the Invisible Touch tour.