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by syndacks 1306 days ago
What's so hard about selling tickets? Is it a technical challenge? A sales challenge? An operational challenge? I'm having a hard time understanding how selling tickets to a concert is so hard.
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Tickets aren't fungible. You can never sell the same seat twice.

You have complex business rules. How venues are laid out change. How tickets are marketed is very dynamic.

Bad actors have a strong incentive for fraud.

You have an insane delta between median traffic & traffic spikes. You need to be able to sell out the staple center in under 4 minutes to an audience of millions.