[ssl-3]

> Allow to resell your ticket at face value to a specific person, for the case where the friend who bought the tickets six months ago is suddenly sick.

This allows scalping.

And then, since scalping is not prevented, all that these measures really accomplish is to theatrically increase the burden for everyone else.

[lbreakjai]

It does not, because you can only resell at face value. There's no profit incentive.

[ssl-3]

This utopia wherein everyone is completely law-abiding and eager to follow every rule does not exist.

[lbreakjai]

What utopia? Each person can buy a maximum of 4 tickets. A ticket has a name on it. You can't use it if it's not yours. To change the name on the ticket, you need to go through the official platform, where you can only resell it for at most face value.

It's not exactly a project Manhattan level of breakthrough we're talking about here. The incentives to scalp are vastly reduced. Sure, I could buy four tickets and resell three of them, but I would still need to physically go to the venue to walk people in. It just doesn't scale.

[ssl-3]

If I can sell a ticket to a specific person, then I can also set my own price for that ticket.

The platform doesn't need to support it, not do the rules and laws.

It's very straightforward: The buyer either meets my terms or there is no sale.

[lbreakjai]

Then skip the resale to specific persons, ask for each participant's name at purchase time like for airplane tickets. Problem solved.

[ssl-3]

> Then skip the resale to specific persons, ask for each participant's name at purchase time like for airplane tickets. Problem solved.

Awesome. Let's just add the frictions of flying to the concert-going experience.

That's a pretty good way to eliminate scalping: Just make it such a pain in the ass to attend that the seats never sell out to begin with.

Other than being terrible, this sounds like a great idea!