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by JohnFen 1068 days ago
> I assume this is to cut down on scams and other issues related to claims of not receiving tickets.

If that's the case, why are they using cutouts for it? I'd think that if their purpose was legitimate, they wouldn't feel the need to disguise their identity.
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filmgirlcw 1068 days ago
I'd think it would be to prevent being "seen" by Ticketmaster/AXS/whoever and then banned or whatever for scalping activity is my thought. I think there is probably a very good reason to hide their identity or at least obscure it.

A similar thing happened when Uber started in New York City. You needed a livery license to drive there, so they created dozens of livery companies (all with German names) that they registered the drivers to, as a way I think, to make it harder for the city to try to shut them down (the city didn't shut them down but I think that was part of their risk calculus). Lyft originally didn't register liveries for its drivers and was banned from New York until it spun that up and it delayed their entry into the market by a few weeks.

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jaywalk 1068 days ago
Right. Just use verifiedbuyer@stubhub.com or something like that. There is obviously some deception going on here, whether it's StubHub or someone else.
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cehrnrooth 1068 days ago
It could be about optics. They might prefer people direct their anger at a random non-existent stranger for paying above face value than have them direct their anger at Stubhub.

That said, shifting blame for high prices isn't a new problem, so it's surprising the domains were all registered in the last 6 months.

Maybe it's a bigger project around market making and price optimization. I priced mine around 70% of the price of similar available tickets (since mine hadn't sold in the 3 weeks I had them listed) and they sold later that day.

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djbusby 1068 days ago
What a dumb way to try to hide. And, inevitably, someone discovered some odd things. Now we can be mad about two things: the Crime and the Coverup.
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duxup 1068 days ago
> they wouldn't feel the need to disguise their identity

Wouldn't that tip off the fake seller if they saw the email?

Such things are such a game of whack a mole that I would approach it as invisibly as possible if I were trying to sniff out fake sellers on my site. Even if just to hope to keep them unaware.

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