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Originally Posted by Frequitude
The only "fair" way to sell tickets below fair market value with no resales is with a lottery. I'll take the scalpers if that's the case because it means I have a much higher likelihood of getting a ticket, albeit at a higher cost.
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The only way a lottery would work is a requirement to have a credit card on file, and if the same person enters twice that invalidates all of their entries.
What this concert is showing is that there has been a tipping point from scalpers "providing a service" to now essentially holding fans for ransom. Myself not being a Hip fan, it would appear that more scalpers than fans bought the tickets. So now the only way a fan can get tickets is to pay a higher price. That is not "providing a service"- as the fan already did the work to try and get tickets.
In this case there will be no "next time they go on tour." So unlike the Superbowl or even the Flames being in the Stanley Cup, the chance to see this again will never happen. Good on Downie for doing this final tour for his fans. If I was told I had a short time to live- I wouldn't be going back into work. I'd be spending time with my family.
It would have been nice if they could have done something similar to airline tickets; where you have to have your name on the ticket and show ID. Especially in places like Calgary where they are doing 2 shows; you could have made one of the shows with those types of restrictions.