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With so many artists against scalpers and hating that scalpers can make more money off their tickets than the artists make I do not know why we have not seen a true technology fix for this.
Basically an EBay like auction site should create a platform that can list every single ticket at once and put them up for auction by class. Buyers should be able to put in a bid and maximum bid per class for tickets and it should be adjusted automatically. Leave the auction open for 2 weeks or so and then sell all tickets to the highest bids.
This method would pretty much destroy scalping as buyers would already put in the max they are willing to pay for those tickets and therefore the Scalper would not have anyone to sell those tickets too.
Sure a tiny 'last minute at any price' audience might buy some tickets but it would be a small number compared to now.
And the benefit then is that the artist is getting the max per ticket instead of the scalper getting the max.
Basically an EBay like auction site should create a platform that can list every single ticket at once and put them up for auction by class. Buyers should be able to put in a bid and maximum bid per class for tickets and it should be adjusted automatically. Leave the auction open for 2 weeks or so and then sell all tickets to the highest bids.
This method would pretty much destroy scalping as buyers would already put in the max they are willing to pay for those tickets and therefore the Scalper would not have anyone to sell those tickets too.
Sure a tiny 'last minute at any price' audience might buy some tickets but it would be a small number compared to now.
And the benefit then is that the artist is getting the max per ticket instead of the scalper getting the max.