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You know what could solve ticket scalping? Ban ticket resales. That's always been an option. Venues don't do this because their only concern is selling out their seats.
they should just ban it for a profit, you should be able to resell tickets for what you paid for them, plans change.
I think that second thing is just called a refund.
that's a bit harder if it's sold out and you want to sell your ticket to your friend/coworker at cost.
It is harder if you want to resell it yourself, but that is the whole point. The right to resell a piece of paper or a code that lets you into a venue is the means by which scalpers ply their arbitrage.
It just makes more sense to allow people to have the venue refund them. Then suddenly it's not sold out anymore.
Just as long as I can get a full refund if I'm unable to attend anymore. Maybe up to an hour before or something.
Or control the prices so people don't overpay.
They already do that to a degree. The problem is that scalpers buy up all the tickets and then over charge people on the secondary market.
Secondary market? Like what?
Scalping is reselling goods on the secondary market for more than you bought them at the source?
TicketSwap does this and works with the venues I think.
How would you do this without verification? How do you still allow gift tickets or buying for a friend?
There's a few ways to do this. At the other commenter said you can attach a name and require ID at the door. ID could be as common as a credit card or a school ID or even an official piece of mail. All this is less invasive than biometrics and more reliable too. Biometrics are always for convenience and not security.
If you want to get extra cautious, sell tickets at the booth for an hour or two before the doors open and up until the beginning of the show. The ticket comes in the form of a paper wristband, like they use for alcohol, and you can pay cash.
Want to buy a ticket for your friend? Use their legal name and then they show ID at the door. There's paranoid as you? Send them cash.
There's another option. You can buy tickets for yourself and any number of companions. Only the purchaser has to show ID, and the entire party has to come in with the purchaser.
There. And now you didn't have to give Sam Altman legal authority to store and resell your biometric data to private surveillance networks and retail shops in exchange for seeing Taylor Swift live.
Tickets are issued to a name and are confirmed at entry with photo ID, just like with an airline ticket.
not much better than eye scanning.
also does not solve the gifting problem, because normally you don't know the ID of your friends
You only need to know their names. Their ID matches their names to their faces.