Re:'Hamilton' Scalpers Pocket $240k Every Week
by enobrev on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @11:25PM
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Dave Chappelle had a 2-ticket limit, where the purchaser and a guest was allowed. The tickets were purchased via Ticketmaster, and whomever was at the door was checking the tickets against our IDs. As a matter of fact, they went through the line ahead of time to match tickets to IDs to ensure we could get in quickly. Just adding this, so as to point out that it's even possible via TM.
Re:'Hamilton' Scalpers Pocket $240k Every Week
by gergles on Thursday May 05, 2016 @11:29AM
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Ticketmaster gets paid when the tickets sell. Ticketmaster has absolutely zero interest in stopping scalpers, because scalpers make sure TM makes money.
They have to pretend to care to keep the public from rioting, but they clearly do not.
Re:'Hamilton' Scalpers Pocket $240k Every Week
by tlarkworthy on Wednesday May 04, 2016 @11:12PM
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DRM the tickets and turn away innocent people who got conned and, refuse them entry to an theatre with empty seats.
My guess is it's something in the "that's just not the way it's done" family... Perhaps their venue controls ticket sales and doesn't care, or they have an intermediary like Ticketmaster who doesn't care. Or maybe it's more of a logistics concern, like they just think that doing such a thing would necessitate too big a change to entry procedure, likely slowing entry down too much? Or a more general logistics concern of they're not set up in person or online to do it that way, and changing now would be more trouble than it's worth?