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CAPTCHAs are over (in ticketing)

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204 points pabs3 | 6 comments | 25 May 25 00:37 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source | bottom
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teeray ◴[25 May 25 02:49 UTC] No.44085166[source]▶
> The naive economic solution to the problem would be raising ticket prices step by step until it is no longer attractive for scalpers to resell your ticket

You can also just do like The Cure did and destroy the secondary market entirely: you can sell tickets through the platform and only for what you paid for them.

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1. markasoftware ◴[25 May 25 03:16 UTC] No.44085264[source]▶
how does this prevent the scalper communicating with the buyer to demand an out-of-band payment?
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2. teeray ◴[25 May 25 13:34 UTC] No.44087718[source]▶
If all tickets are the same price, then any buyer-seller combination will do. I believe the seller doesn’t get to choose the buyer and both are anonymous. No way to coordinate such an out-of-band payment.
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3. tptacek ◴[25 May 25 22:00 UTC] No.44091597[source]▶
They're not all the same price. They have the same list price, but once the show (or the desirable floor section of the show) sells out, the real price floats.
4. threeseed ◴[25 May 25 23:20 UTC] No.44092225[source]▶
Because the platform doesn't need to expose the details of buyer/seller.

Most tickets these days are digital.

5. alterom ◴[26 May 25 01:17 UTC] No.44092967[source]▶
They don't even have to have the same price if the seller just effectively returns the ticket back to the system.

Then it's up for grabs.

There's no guarantee for the buyer that an out-of-band payment will get them the ticket (someone else can get it), and there's nothing that forces them to send an extra payment once they do get the ticket.

6. alterom ◴[26 May 25 01:18 UTC] No.44092983[source]▶
They can demand all they want, but they can't guarantee any way of getting the ticket to the person that send a payment... which makes it a bit of a tall demand.