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Can no longer pay cash, have a paper ticket, be anonymous. Those are much more important to me than preventing scalping.
Scalpers out front have provided a valuable service to me a dozen times over the years, when I didn’t plan well.
Any solution (I didn’t ask for) that turns concerts in an international flight experience means they are dead to me.
Age was traditionally checked separately and manually. Not put into a database to be bought and sold and breached.
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Can no longer pay cash, have a paper ticket, be anonymous. Those are much more important to me than preventing scalping.
Scalpers out front have provided a valuable service to me a dozen times over the years, when I didn’t plan well.
Any solution (I didn’t ask for) that turns concerts in an international flight experience means they are dead to me.
Age was traditionally checked separately and manually. Not put into a database to be bought and sold and breached.