Re:Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans
by HDThoreaun on Thursday May 21, 2026 @05:45PM
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The problem with scalping is scale. A single person reselling a single ticket is completely fine, because that is not a viable business model for enough people to distort the market. Just limit the number of tickets someone can buy to 3-5.
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Re:Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans
by crazygringo on Thursday May 21, 2026 @06:14PM
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A scalper just pretends to be 200 different people. With 200 different emails and 200 different credit cards.
Limiting the number of tickets someone can buy doesn't protect against scalping.
Re:Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans
by ssl-3 on Thursday May 21, 2026 @11:57PM
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Or they just hire other people to move tickets around.
It works at a small scale: 5 people, 5 tickets each, and $100 profit on each seat after everyone else gets paid? That's not so hard to keep track of, and it brings in $2,500.
It also works at a larger scale: 50 people. 5 tickets each, and $100 profit on each seat? Keeping that all in-line is definitely sounding like Real Work, but it also sounds like a tax-free $25,000.