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| What "regulating" is there to be done? Either tickets can be re-sold, or they can't. If they can, then this was, is and ever will be the result: tickets being snapped up mainly as a business investment with few intending to attend being able to purchase at the initial point of sale.
In principle, anyone can buy anything, it is then theirs to do with as they wish.
The answer would be straightforward, you either pay by plastic or produce ID, and that plastic or that ID has to be produced with the ticket to gain admission. And it would be easy, too. If millions every day can board hundreds of thousands of flights, with all their luggage, through not just ID but the full security charades, and all get settled in their seats, yet the planes fly on time, then it makes getting a few thousand into one venue on one occasion seem easy peasy in comparison.
However I imagine the reason the vendors don't do this is because they WANT the tickets to be like gold dust, so they sell out with no bother. If buyers had to attend then that would cut down the demand. Plus as you say they have got into the "resale" scamming themselves for a piece of that action too, which is another reason they won't do it.
I don't btw buy the objection that once you buy something, you have a legal right to sell which can't be interfered with. In this case it is a personal contract for a service, the "ticket" as a physical object is not the purchase, the personal right to attend the event is. The seller can impose whatever restrictions they like by contract on the buyer (and do - tickets always incorporate a whole raft of conditions) and as long as there was a reasonable option to get a refund if you can't go, it would be legal too.
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There was a high profile issue in the USA a few years ago where Ticketmaster redirected buyers, for Bruce Springsteen tickets, straight to a resale site despite tickets being still available at face value.
www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... o-20100218
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There was a high profile issue in the USA a few years ago where Ticketmaster redirected buyers, for Bruce Springsteen tickets, straight to a resale site despite tickets being still available at face value.
www.rollingstone.com/music/news/ ... o-20100218
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| Quote: King Street Cat "Interesting article from late November. Let's hope they go through with it.
It won't change a thing in fact it will push more sellers to totally unregulated sites like the eBay owned Gumtree, and craigslist.
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| Quote: Big Graeme "It won't change a thing in fact it will push more sellers to totally unregulated sites like the eBay owned Gumtree, and craigslist.'"
Good old craigslist - ebay for burglars
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| Quote: cod'ead "Good old craigslist - ebay for burglars'"
Yeah, I'm sure people will be queueing up to buy tickets from Craigslist. The only stories I've seen in the news about Craigslist are of 'meet ups' gone wrong that have ended in attacks and murders!
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