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To: Disturbin

One thing I wish these people who have no problem with scalping would understand is that it is not ‘their’ event. The performer, sports team owner, etc. has decided that they want to make tickets available at a certain price for whatever reason. They are selling their performance and have every right to say that they don’t want the arena to be filled only with those who can afford to pay $500 on a $50 face value ticket. If that happens it is a great way to lose the very audience they are trying to build.


55 posted on 10/23/2007 7:43:22 AM PDT by frankiep (Democrats base their ideology on the premise that you are too stupid to do anything for yourself.)
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To: frankiep
The performer, sports team owner, etc. has decided that they want to make tickets available at a certain price for whatever reason.

If the promoters want to do this, they could easily enforce it. Sell tickets to specific people, with the name printed and/or bar coded on the ticket. Check IDs at the door and if your ID doesn't match your ticket, you don't get in.

Alternatively, you could associate the ticket with the credit card used to buy it. The card has to be swiped at the door when the ticket is scanned to make sure the card holder is present. That might be easier for kids' shows like this one where the children wouldn't have ID but the parent would have bought the tickets for the whole group.

If the promoters want to dictate the price, they need to find a free-market solution to ensure their product is used by the people to whom they sell. Airlines have done it for decades. But if they choose to permit their product to be used by anyone (and another poster indicated that some promoters prefer it that way, for less than above-board reasons), then the free market should determine the price. The people for whom the tickets are worth the most will get them, because they'll be willing to pay the most for them. This is how efficient free markets work. If you forbid it, you have some people who would rather have the true cash value of the tickets but have to use the tickets, and you have others who would rather see the show than hang onto their money, but they are also prevented from getting what they want.

62 posted on 10/23/2007 8:40:31 AM PDT by Turbopilot (iumop ap!sdn w,I 'aw dlaH)
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