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Better-Online Ticket Sales Act of 2016 Passes
Bentleyspop
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Might be good news for future PJ tour ticket sales
Congress Crack Down On Bots That Snap Up Concert Tickets
http://www.pollstar.com/news_article.aspx?ID=828409
Congress Bans Ticket-Scalpers' Tool Blamed For Quick Sell-Outs
http://n.pr/2hpmsQk
Congress Crack Down On Bots That Snap Up Concert Tickets
http://www.pollstar.com/news_article.aspx?ID=828409
Congress Bans Ticket-Scalpers' Tool Blamed For Quick Sell-Outs
http://n.pr/2hpmsQk
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Scalping is illegal too buy still happens all the time
Maybe Russia can do something to block the bots?
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Different jurisdictions have different laws regarding scalping.
Some are strict
Some don't have any restictions.
There is no federal ticket resale laws
So this will be interesting
Though I'm guessing that there is nothing to stop the brokers from utilizing nternational computers using bots to source their ticket stock.
How does the government enforce the bots thing? Wouldn't they have to subpoena Ticketmaster for order records. What kind of things would they look for? A bunch of orders from the same IP address? Could bots be updated to show all orders came from different ip addresses? Is ticketmaster required to keep logs of this data? How does the government show sufficient data to a judge to obtain a warrant to access records should they exist?
Ticketmaster also lets foreigner's buy tickets (as a Canadian I can buy tickets to US Stuff). What's to stop people from running the bots outside of the united states.
I'm pessimistic on this having any kind of impact, as you can tell
For those of you that haven't read it yet, read this:
https://theringer.com/ticket-industry-problem-solution-e4b3b71fdff6#.do4umj87u
You'll find out why were already doomed before the public onsale, and the bots get access to the same crappy tickets we do.
I believe it was an article I read on the Ringer that said artists will buy back the prime seats from the venue, and then re-sell them on sites like Stub hub for a major profit, in order to get 'market value' for those sections.
This is good news regardless.
An old problem that will probably never go away.
I wanted to bring awareness, because to me, everyone's got horse blinder's on. They're so focused on bots, then all these shady practices get to keep operating in the shadows. All the media, message forums, facebook. All anyone rants about is the bots, and to me it's the smallest of the current problems facing ticket buyers. It gives the industry something easy to blame, and they get to keep doing what they're doing.
Personally I'd like to see paperless ticketing for everything. The system that TM has where you go to the venue, scan with the Credit Card you purchased the ticket with, and immediately have to enter the view. Giving you zero chance to scalp the tickets (unless of course you enter with people you sold them too). That really seems to curb scalping to me. I think any artist can use if the request it, but I've only seen it in action once (the fan club tickets at at a U2 show were paperless, while everything else wasn't). The two drawbacks are:
1) Not being able to attend a show. You can't easily sell them to a friend (well I guess you could if you trust them with your credit card). Personally i've missed 3 shows in the 20+ years I've been going to shows. I would gladly eat the cost of those tickets if it meant curbing scalping.
2) The stubs that paperless tickets print out are pretty crappy. Many of us keep our stubs as mementos for all the shows we've gone too. It would be awesome if the machine at the venue could print out something comparable to current ticket stubs.
I'm wonder if the lack of artists using paperless ticketing is because they make more money with out.... In which case I guess it'll never catch on.