Subj : Taylor Swift
To   : Ogg
From : Arelor
Date : Mon Aug 21 2023 09:32:54

  Re: Taylor Swift
  By: Ogg to Arelor on Sun Aug 20 2023 11:54 pm

 > Hello Arelor!
 > 
 > ** On Sunday 20.08.23 - 13:24, Arelor wrote to Ogg:
 > 
 >  >> There really should be a system in place that ties the
 >  >> ticket purchase to the individual and not allow resale.
 > 
 >  A> Meh, that would allow orgs to track people's activities and
 >  A> that would suck more than having people be willingly
 >  A> scammed.
 > 
 > Bots always seem to buy up the initial offerings within
 > minutes. By the time regular concert goers try to buy tickets,
 > they are all gone. Then, the tickets find their way onto 3rd
 > party sites at much inflated prices.
 > 
 > I don't understand why bots can't be stymied or the ticket
 > purchasing process can't be slowed down with "are you human"
 > tests.  It's almost as if the initial seller has a vested
 > interest in the 3rd-party reseller biz and even justify raising
 > the prices if the demand for them increases.
 > 
 > 
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Honestly, if people is paying high prices from resellers, is that tickets are
actually worth that much, and then the show promoters should be raising the
prices themselves..

Or, more likely, people should stopm paying stupid prices.

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