[WBrentWilliams]

Impractical, perhaps, but sale-to-person on day of show is the only way I see that can prevent scalping. That is, you can by as many tickets as you want in person, but you must present a body for each ticket purchased.

Of course, this approach has its own problems, including possibility of riot, long queues, and surprise venue fees scaled to handle crowd control.

[sn_master]

Not many people would take a day off or travel out of town if there's a high risk of not getting a ticket either.

[makeitdouble]

An alternative could be online untransferable but voidable tickets, with in person payment.

Basically try to make it so money changing hands is inpractical and bears considerable risks.

[WBrentWilliams]

As I said, the idea I posited _is_ impractical. It works fine if your band is playing small clubs and the like, but it admittedly falls apart at scale.

I see plenty of technical solutions being proposed. They might even work. Except each one seems to be exclusionary in some way or another at scale. Or they stomp on the tender feelings of libertarians, but I repeat myself.

[sn_master]

Don't think small clubs suffer from scalping much if at all. Scalping makes sense when there's enough demand to justify the effort and risk.

[bigyikes]

This is an awful idea for the reasons you listed, but also for the fact that you'd only have a chance to get a ticket for shows that will sell out. You would be unable to plan in advance and would likely waste hours in a queue.

Why not just require a name for each ticket and check ID at entry?

[mattmaroon]

Nah, much easier solution: digital tickets that you can't sell. Ticketmaster could do this easily, their tickets are a rotating code (like an RSA key) so you can only sell a digital ticket either a) with their permission or b) by giving the stranger to whom you sold it your ticketmaster log-in creds. The latter is pretty easy to stop, you could easily make it unfeasible for scalpers to create accounts, buy a ticket, then give the account away over and over.