- Digital only tickets
- By default, the tickets are not transferrable. Use your app on your phone to get in.
- You can pay a fee to make tickets transferrable/scalpable.
- The fee increases as more tickets are sold with this option (set ceiling on max number of tickets with this option sold)
So okay, you want to scalp tickets, you have to pay more and people who don't want to transfer pay less.
I don't like that idea. First, personally, I'll rather pass than install that app.
Second, it would need to heavily rely on device fingerprinting and obfuscation to give scalpers hard time trying to modify the app. Software protection will likely fail anyway when both scalpers and people buying from them have aligned interests. Even if the software protection holds, the price of second-hand phones may be too low compared to price of the tickets, so the "transferability fee" has a practical ceiling, especially since the phone can be sold again afterwards.
really? I already use axs and ticketmaster apps for tickets. Are you using pdfs or something? The app is nice because it rotates the barcode every minute, and idk how else you'd achieve that. I guess a webapp could work.
I don't think you need to rely on device fingerprinting, just make sure they're logged into their ticketing account. You might see people start to sell accounts with single/pair tickets but that just sounds like a pain, and we could mitigate it if it becomes a problem.
That works in one sense, in that it reduces demand overall.
I used to go to lots of shows; any time there was a show I was interested in, I’d check the online used goods marketplace 2-72 hours in advance and see if I could get tickets below face value. Often I could. Sometimes I couldn’t, and I wouldn’t go to those shows.
As the result of the move of big shows to digital-only tickets, I’ve just stopped going to big shows. I just go to local venues where I can pay in cash on entry.
So okay, you want to scalp tickets, you have to pay more and people who don't want to transfer pay less.