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Seems like you could just model it on the way airlines do ticketing. * Your ticket has your name on it. * ID is checked at the door and must match your ticket

by teovall 12y ago

Seems like you could just model it on the way airlines do ticketing. * Your ticket has your name on it. * ID is checked at the door and must match your ticket. * When buying a ticket, you can choose a refundable ticket for a higher price than a non-refundable ticket. * Tickets can be sold through resellers who get a cut. * Resellers are all selling from the same pool of open seats so they have to have competitive prices. * Ticket prices rise as the concert date gets closer. * "Frequent fliers" can get rewards and other preferential treatment.

wiseleo 12y ago
This creates a problem with tickets where the attendee is not the person paying for the ticket and could be one of several potential companions of the person who is paying for the tickets. I can no longer just give a pair of tickets to someone as a surprise and tell them to go have fun. I could, in theory, give them a gift token that corresponds to reserved seats and then it would be up to them to register their names. Then the scalper can sell such tokens and we are back to where we started.
- teovall 12y ago
  You can buy a plane ticket for someone else. You just can't fly using someone else's ticket. Why would that not work for concert tickets? The only issue I can think of is giving two (or more) tickets to someone as a gift so they, and the friend(s) of their choice, can go to a concert together. This could be handled by selling "friend" tickets that are only valid if the person named on the primary ticket is accompanying them. There would probably need to be a limit on the number of "friend" tickets that could be purchased along with each primary ticket. For a scalper to sell these tickets, they would need to accompany their buyers through the doors. Scalpers wouldn't be able to resell their primary ticket, which would increase the costs for scalpers but not anyone else. Each scalper would only be able to sell a small number of tickets due to the friend limit.
  - whapworth 12y ago
    or maybe you need to attend a certain percentage of the concerts for which you buy tickets....just to prevent the person who buys tickets for eight different shows in a night and goes to none.

by teovall 12y ago

wiseleo 12y ago

This creates a problem with tickets where the attendee is not the person paying for the ticket and could be one of several potential companions of the person who is paying for the tickets. I can no longer just give a pair of tickets to someone as a surprise and tell them to go have fun. I could, in theory, give them a gift token that corresponds to reserved seats and then it would be up to them to register their names. Then the scalper can sell such tokens and we are back to where we started.

teovall 12y ago
You can buy a plane ticket for someone else. You just can't fly using someone else's ticket. Why would that not work for concert tickets? The only issue I can think of is giving two (or more) tickets to someone as a gift so they, and the friend(s) of their choice, can go to a concert together. This could be handled by selling "friend" tickets that are only valid if the person named on the primary ticket is accompanying them. There would probably need to be a limit on the number of "friend" tickets that could be purchased along with each primary ticket. For a scalper to sell these tickets, they would need to accompany their buyers through the doors. Scalpers wouldn't be able to resell their primary ticket, which would increase the costs for scalpers but not anyone else. Each scalper would only be able to sell a small number of tickets due to the friend limit.
- whapworth 12y ago
  or maybe you need to attend a certain percentage of the concerts for which you buy tickets....just to prevent the person who buys tickets for eight different shows in a night and goes to none.