[MountainHip]

This documentary type show is VERY telling
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Concert promoters are thwarting the traditional scalper, and scalping the tickets themselves.
Tickets to high demand events are never on sale for the regular price in the first place!

What brought this on (for myself) was hearing of a recent onsale of a rare Garth Brooks show at the upcoming Calgary stampede.

Reportedly tickets "sold out" in 58 seconds, only to (as expected) show up on reselling sites by the hundreds.
- Who really put them there?

Ticketmaster does have a system in place where only the Credit Card holder can enter the concert - a ticket-less system. But does not use it often. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ticketmaster.com/paperless">http://www.ticketmaster.com/paperless</a><!-- m -->

[thebends]

Ticketmaster does have a system in place where only the Credit Card holder can enter the concert - a ticket-less system. But does not use it often. <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.ticketmaster.com/paperless">http://www.ticketmaster.com/paperless</a><!-- m -->

I believe Radiohead took this route with their latest tour in support of King of Limbs, and The Hip did it for their fan club show at Danforth Music Hall so I think its something that can be implemented. But there in no upside for TM, on the contrary it probably means more overhead for them and the venues for these events. I don't think this problem can be solved unless there is a direct artist-to-consumer framework (i.e. no "middle-man"), and\or fans take it on themselves to have a non profit ticket exchange process like the one here on the Hipbase.