Re:Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans
by mdhen on Friday May 22, 2026 @05:14PM
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A lot of festivals in Europe use ticketswap, your ticket gets raffled off to a list of people interested in buying it. It's the only way to sell your ticket. It's a the original price plus a small fee
That obviously doesn’t work because money can still change hands outside the official platform, unless you mean resale to a random buyer selected by the platform, in which case the resale is not terribly different from a refund and restock for any event where scalping is a problem.
You simply can’t stop scalping if you allow resale. Heck, people even attempt to scalp things where there’s no official resale mechanism (e.g. I change my id at this second, you immediately change yours).