Posted on 09/14/2016 5:37:27 PM PDT by RetiredTexasVet
I saw a news item on the morning MSM news about the sale of concert tickets. It seems that scalpers buy up many of the tickets withing minutes of them going on sale. The proposed solution was for Congress to create a law concerning the sale of concert tickets.
That was probably the dumbest idea that I've heard since the last Slow Joe speech. The most simple and effective solution is for the public not to buy the scalped tickets. A few concerts with no scalped ticket proceeds and they would be out of business.
However, the scalpers are counting on two basic ideas: many of the public "have more money than brains" and many of the public have an "instant gratification addiction".
Getting the government involved will not solve the problem but will generate more money for lawyers and add many levels of confusion.
The best way around this would be when all the tickets are sold in minutes, simply arrange (if possible) for a 2nd, 3rd, etc. performance and start selling tickets anew. Sooner or later the scalpers will run out of money and the value of tickets will drop.
If multiple performances are not possible, then the production manager should announce that on the day of the performance that all ticket holders will be seated by 30 minutes before the concert starts (1 ticket - 1 person or entity). After that tickets will be sold at the gate for the normal price until the maximum capacity of the event is reached (Maximum capacity - ticket holders seated = additional tickets to sell). Scalpers would have either use their tickets, give them away, or sell them quickly at a discount. The productions should announce this policy in advance and advice the public not to buy the scalper tickets.
Tex, can I respectfully suggest that your ordered logical military way of thinking might not be so appropriate, in this context?
then the production manager should announce that on the day of the performance that all ticket holders will be seated by 30 minutes before the concert starts (1 ticket - 1 person or entity). After that tickets will be sold at the gate for the normal price until the maximum capacity of the event is reached (Maximum capacity - ticket holders seated = additional tickets to sell).
So if I don't care to see the warm-up act, or I know the performer typically shows up late, or even if I'm busy and I'll get to the show half way through my purchase will be voided? Yeah, that makes me even less eager to see a show.
There are a few ways to do this. You can limit ticket sales to a maximum of 6 per transaction on the same card and anything more than that has to go through group sales. Group sales tickets will be released at will call one hour before the event. Also, you can set the maximum resale of the ticket. Say 10% of sale price of ticket. Finally, if the market can bear the resale price of the ticket, then why should it be a problem?
Hot damn, what a country.
That’s really not how any of this works.
Often the first tickets go to sponsors, promoters and resellers. When I worked in the CATV business our sports channel programmers had a skybox for every event. Those tickets never went on the market.
They also had tons of tickets in the cheap seats.
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