• Square Singer
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    101 year ago

    But again, why do that if you can also bind tickets to names and use that to make yourself the only possible place where people can sell their tickets on, with a substantial fee (like Ticketmaster does)?

    They have no incentive to let people freely sell tickets when thy can also force themselves in as mandatory man in the middle.

    • @Selmafudd
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      31 year ago

      You remove the burden of verifying the names and storing the personal data and you don’t need to handle the resale inhouse. Other than that yeah it’s pretty much the same thing

      • Square Singer
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        11 year ago

        To a reasonable company, this might be a burden. To a big corporation it’s half the reason they are doing this.

    • @aesthelete
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      1 year ago

      Yeah and rent-seeking is the only real big business left in town besides personalized advertising.

      No way a rent-seeking opportunity this great isn’t going to be gobbled up by the existing players and instead given up for free so that they can use new, poorly performing, expensive technology instead.