Re:A scalper who used bots to buy millions of tickets, now w...
by SilasX on Tuesday February 14, 2017 @03:05PM
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Maybe that would be a better way to do it[1], but that's not actually what happens.
Buyers will still pay $500. They will just pay it to middlemen instead.
Fans will not "get to trade their time waiting in line" for tickets, so that the golden admit-one is rationed by die-hardness. Instead, such fans will be right there in line with those choking said lines for money. And which they're also better at.
Sellers could move to what you suggest. They could do a lottery, and they could lock the winners by ID to their purchase, completely non-transferrably. But none of them do it, because they aren't optimizing for what you claim they are.
If and when they start doing that way, those would be applicable points to raise in defense of that practice.
[1] i.e. if you replaced "charge $500 to the N highest bidders" with "charge $10 to N randomly-chosen chosen people".
Buyers will still pay $500. They will just pay it to middlemen instead.
Fans will not "get to trade their time waiting in line" for tickets, so that the golden admit-one is rationed by die-hardness. Instead, such fans will be right there in line with those choking said lines for money. And which they're also better at.
Sellers could move to what you suggest. They could do a lottery, and they could lock the winners by ID to their purchase, completely non-transferrably. But none of them do it, because they aren't optimizing for what you claim they are.
If and when they start doing that way, those would be applicable points to raise in defense of that practice.
[1] i.e. if you replaced "charge $500 to the N highest bidders" with "charge $10 to N randomly-chosen chosen people".