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Ticketmaster vows crackdown on scalper accounts that buy up most tickets | CBC Investigates (www.cbc.ca)
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The FTC acknowledges its suit is based in large part on revelations from a 2018 CBC News/Toronto Star investigation, in which reporters went undercover posing as "ticket brokers" and exposed how Ticketmaster recruited mass scalpers and knowingly let them use hundreds of fake accounts to circumvent ticket-buying limits.

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[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Wouldn't necessarily need to be the exact purchaser. Who ever buys the ticket puts down a name to go on the ticket. Like buying a plane ticket.

If it's a group just the one name would suffice as long as that person is present, and make it so refunds or exchanges are easy to do if the person who gets it as a gift doesn't want it.

[–] DoPeopleLookHere@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Sure, but still means your banning you ever giving your ticket to someone else is what I'm getting at.

Like if you can't go, you just have to eat the cost of the ticket.

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 1 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Sure, unless they have a refund policy. Maybe you might get screwed if you're plans change within like a week of the event but shit happens. Or maybe a system can happen where you can change your ticket after the return window closes and reprint it with a different name.

It's not something that cannot be fixed or figured out. Just probably not in 5 minutes in a single comment, but you seem to think it's impossible.

[–] DoPeopleLookHere@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

Like sure, I'm not saying a better system doesn't exist.

I'm saying just going "print the name on the ticket" isn't the easy grab.

I didn't see a problem with the law limiting resale tickets to 150% of the face value. That seemed fine, but Ford repealed that law.....

[–] Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca 0 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Just because you make a law don't mean it won't still happen. If they make it a law I guarantee you it won't be enforced. What are people going to do? Phone the cops because people are selling tickets on Facebook for too much?

The only way to enforce it is at the entrance to the venue by making tickets invalid if they were resold without the venue giving some sort of permissions somehow.

[–] DoPeopleLookHere@sh.itjust.works 0 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

You don't think Ticketmaster, who has the ticket never leave their ecosystem, can't enforce this well enough?

Like off market sales are gonna happen noatter what you do. But we could at least curtail platform sales .....

Between that and limiting the number of tickets you can buy would knee cap scalpers IMO.