[oldtownroad]

My theory is it’s a janky workaround for a system that requires “an account” to buy tickets and so this was the solution they came up with internally to support third-party integrations and possibly affiliate programs. The amount of weird-ass Rube Goldberg systems in the real world is staggering, I’ve worked on systems where this sort of bananas solution could end up being used.

[shmatt]

This is the best theory so far, Having using the website, I would bet good money the entire StubHub backend is a dumpster fire

[JohnMakin]

It's probably this.