Comment by mattmaroon
2 years ago
Then you should have thought of that when you bought the tickets I guess. Any change to the system to fight scalping is going to inconvenience regular users too.
As a frequent concert goer, I’d happily have to arrive with my group if it meant no Ticketmaster.
So that makes it a shitty system that is really solving nothing. If I hypothetically have a group of 14-15 year olds that I buy Taylor Swift tickets for, does that mean I have to accompany them up through the line? Just dumb.
There are really two options. Tickets are non-transferable, which means you need the name of the person and to check ID, and there's no scalping, like airlines. Or tickets are transferable, and you don't need names or IDS or whatever else but scalping occurs.
If you think scalping isn't enough of a problem to balance out the inconvenience of having to plan the ticket purchases better, well, uh, that's just like, your opinion, man. We'll agree to disagree. But it does mitigate a problem, scalpers inflating prices.