[jonwithoutanh]

I am an artist.

I want my fans to be able to come to my shows.

I sell my tickets at a reasonable price to allow my fans to come.

All the tickets get bought up and resold for prices a large majority of my fans can't afford.

The venue is still full of my fans, but only the wealthy ones, and I have no method to allow my less wealthy fans to be able to come to my shows.

I've also made notably less money that I would have if I sold my tickets at the scalper price.

I am no incentivized to sell at the scalper price permanently removing the ability for my less wealthy fans to attend my show.

[d110af5ccf]

I am not claiming that the situation is ideal. Only that it is incredibly naive to expect scalping not to exist and that selling below market price without a plan for how you expect that to work is a genuinely bad idea.

If you want to raffle your tickets off then by all means do that. But you will need a very different system from what we have now. And in order to prevent scalping you will probably need to collect government issued ID or biometric data which would need to be verified on entry to the venue. And the secondary market would have to be totally disallowed, with cancellations involving a refund and the ticket being re-raffled off.

Personally I think that anything short of that is incredibly naive and that you get what you deserve.

[maxgashkov]

> I am no incentivized to sell at the scalper price permanently removing the ability for my less wealthy fans to attend my show.

The only 'fair' alternative to this (even in hypothetical scenario when there are no scalpers, e.g. like it currently is in Japan) are lotteries.

I do hate the lotteries for ticket sales a lot, but I'm obviously biased (while I'm not wealthy by any meaningful standard, I'd be able to pay ~5x of the usual ticket here w/o breaking too much sweat).