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CAPTCHAs are over (in ticketing)

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204 points pabs3 | 2 comments | 25 May 25 00:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.412s | source
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charcircuit ◴[25 May 25 01:20 UTC] No.44084840[source]▶
>Most organizers, including for-profit organizations, do not want to choose this option due to ethical concerns or concerns about community building.

The alternative is selling the tickets to scalpers which doesn't seem ethically better or better at community building as compared to directly selling it to fans.

Even if you assign tickets to IDs scalpers will sell access to bots instead to capture the delta between market price and the price the ticket is being sold for.

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1. DrillShopper ◴[25 May 25 01:27 UTC] No.44084862[source]▶
Sell the tickets with a decreasing price - early tickets are very expensive, late tickets are not, and hold back between 10% and 20% until day of sale at the lowest price.

Make the scalping bastards choke on it, and break FOMO all at once.

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2. debugnik ◴[25 May 25 21:27 UTC] No.44091305[source]▶
But once tickets run out, the scalpers' price is the only price, and bots are better positioned to hold and time the market.