justinlkarr

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It costs 3x-5x more to make theatre on Broadway than in London(gordoncox.substack.com)
1 points by justinlkarr 3y ago|0 comments
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by justinlkarr 3y ago
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38267354
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Argentine airline introduces ticket resale(travelweekly.com)
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Airline Ticket Reselling(insider.com)
1 points by justinlkarr 3y ago|1 comments
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by justinlkarr 3y ago
True on 1 but not on 2. There is no longer a limit on the amount you can resell a ticket for in NYS. see NYS ACA 11-C, Title G, 25.30(c): https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/ACA/25.30
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by justinlkarr 3y ago
This is interesting. Are there restaurants doing this kind of variable pricing? I bet there are some eager GMs thinking about it.
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by justinlkarr 3y ago
From the National Association of Ticket Brokers (the lobbying arm of the ticket reseller industry): https://www.protectticketrights.com/news/86/PRESS+RELEASE+NY... (This is not my personal perspective.)
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by justinlkarr 3y ago
Yes. Either through simply carrying many cards (see the binders of credit cards in documentaries on ticket resellers) or getting many numbers issued against a single account by a friendly bank. These were popular in the 00's and 10&#x2
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by justinlkarr 3y ago
Overall, I don't think the restaurants have a particularly strong incentive to solve this problem. This is the identical to early perspective on the secondary market in event ticketing: a sale is a sale, our work is done. That means
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by justinlkarr 3y ago
As other commenters have shared, there are big disincentives for restaurants to turn people away at the door - they don't get paid, and it is negative experience for both sides (with commensurate brand effects). Bulk-generating account
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by justinlkarr 3y ago
I think this is actually common now. I'm often asked to make a deposit on a reservation when using Resy. I'm not aware that there is variable or dynamic pricing component to it, however. That's a great idea and something I be
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by justinlkarr 3y ago
From your friends in event ticketing: welcome to the struggle, and we're sorry. I hope Resy figures this out, and I hope we're able to learn from (or license) their solution. I expect their approach will look similar to our path:
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by justinlkarr 3y ago
Ticket marketplaces take fees on every transaction, so incentivizing multiple transactions on a single ticket is in their interest. Additionally, resale fees tend to be higher, on a percentage basis, and prices tend to be higher on resale t
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by justinlkarr 3y ago
100% correct. In addition to being generally legal in the US, in key markets, resale cannot legally be constrained. A venue or artist cannot legally institute policies or practices to prohibit resale. Even if resale were prohibited or techn
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by justinlkarr 4y ago
At the risk of being obvious, I don't think that is what Stoller is saying. I think he is saying it is a tech problem whose root cause is a monopoly problem (leading to long-term underinvestment). This one caught TM sideways, clearly,
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by justinlkarr 4y ago
This varies by US state. In some states - including New York - it is illegal to prohibit transfer of tickets and therefore illegal to prohibit resale.
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by justinlkarr 4y ago
Look at paragraph (c), a little pro-reseller nugget buried in an otherwise very consumer friendly law. That paragraph is the reason obvious anti-scalping practices can't work in one of the US's largest live event markets.
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by justinlkarr 4y ago
Ice is the old practice of producers (aka rights holders) or box office staff taking tips to make tickets available to resellers. This is illegal and is not common anymore. The era of computerized ticketing has made it much harder to do.
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by justinlkarr 4y ago
Northwestern University uses (or used) a version of this for their basketball team, which they call "Purple Pricing". https://blogs.cornell.edu/info2040/2022/10/25/sports-ticket-... https:&#x2
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by justinlkarr 4y ago
In New York State, it is illegal to prohibit the transfer of tickets, which complicates most obvious approaches to stopping scalpers. https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/ACA/25.30
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by justinlkarr 5y ago
The off-line version of this (Merlin) worked great in the Boundary Waters in June. Detected visually-verified grouse, vireos, woodpeckers, trumpter swan and bald eagles on Nina Moose and Agnes lakes.
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by justinlkarr 7y ago
In my experience, this is a common misconception. In the union contracts I've worked with and under (entertainment industry), seniority is not a factor in compensation. More senior work roles generally earn more, but individual employe
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by justinlkarr 14y ago
Ditto DC. Ditto Chicago (though it's better). NYC cab service is by far the most consistently reliable this side of the Atlantic... once you get the rules down. One largely unknown tip is that there are many formal cab stands around NYC. At
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by justinlkarr 15y ago
I'm struck that there are great sites for learning how to code and how to build a small business around software development. Nothing like this exists for the entertainment industry. We have BFAs and MFAs that are roughly equivalent to your