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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: 0.201s | source
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modeless ◴[25 May 25 03:43 UTC] No.44085353[source]▶
I am unsympathetic when people insist on selling things for the wrong price and then come up with these elaborate schemes for fixing the problems they themselves caused.

If they would simply sell tickets for the prices people are willing to pay in the first place then they wouldn't need to invade privacy or any of this stuff. I've heard the arguments they use to justify why they don't and they're all hogwash.

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kimos ◴[25 May 25 23:21 UTC] No.44092233[source]▶
This problem with this is that it assumes a supply and demand shaped problem that markets solve.

You can’t just make more Taylor Swift to meet demand. You can’t open more Taylor Swifts in different regions. Acts have a very low very rigid upper supply limit. So if you price up at that demand it puts it out of reach of almost everyone. And that’s a bad outcome for almost everyone.

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1. amanaplanacanal ◴[26 May 25 11:20 UTC] No.44096263[source]▶
If you insist on only seeing Taylor Swift, this is what you get. There are way more talented artists than will ever play at these giant stadium shows. She isn't a better musician than all of those other artists, she is just more popular.