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CAPTCHAs are over (in ticketing)

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204 points pabs3 | 1 comments | 25 May 25 00:37 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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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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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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1. 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.