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I'm sure it does, but it also seems "anti-consumer," steers folks toward buying that "ticket insurance" offered at check-out (b/c what other recourse will you have if you can't go?), etc. It's a tricky problem for sure.
― You have seen the heavy groups (morrisp), Thursday, 20 February 2020 17:41 (four years ago) link
There are legit sanctioned ways to resell tix like Ticketmaster Resale Marketplace but then these services will set a minimum price for your tickets sometimes that is too high to garner interest.
For a sold out event, you're golden, but if it's not, you just want to recover *something*.
People will just start demanding refunds and attempting chargebacks as even ticket insurance can only be used in specific instances. Illness, you're good. Laid off, you're good. Work demands you work on a day you weren't previously scheduled? Out of luck. Someone dies but they weren't a member of your immediate family or going to the show with you? Out of luck. And the insurance inflates the already bloated sale prices of many tickets.
The resale sites aren't the primary issue as much as a symptom. The primary issue is that third parties also seem to acquire large allotments of tickets with only resale as an intent. Sometimes even Ticketmaster has promoted this.
I admit I don't know how to stop that but while making tickets non transferable might curb scalping, it just about guarantees empty seats in the house, and that many people who didn't want to pay another $20 for ticket insurance, or who missed for a non-covered reason will take a bath on it. And possibly stop attending.
And how would gifts work?
― sorry for butt rockin (Neanderthal), Saturday, 22 February 2020 22:25 (four years ago) link