Why don't promoters of events that are bound to sell out reserve a percentage of tickets to sell by auction? This would mean that they get the cash instead of folk touting tickets or selling on ebay.
i'd rather some folk on ebay made a bit of beer money than even more money going to the ticket plcs myself.
That's true.. .. but it doesn't answer the question. Why don't they do it? And anyway, I think I'd rather buy a ticket at auction from the original sellers rather than on ebay. It also means that if I was daft enough or desperate enough and had the cash then at least I could be pretty sure of getting a ticket well in advance.
RE: That's true.. true, it might be quite expensive to administer i suppose. it sounds like a good idea to me. i have often thought - the first ten rows for concerts are the ones where you make your money from buying and selling gig tickets on ebay. its always surprised me that they don't discriminate the prices. think they'd be able to do it as long as they named the face value of the ticket on the auction. Comet do a similar thing with an auction site - it auctions all the used / discontinued stock to customers.
If the problem is that it's illegal to sell the ticket above its face value then they could make them a million quid each and then do the auction (?).
its not illegal to sell a ticket for above face value - apart from segregated sporting events i think. you just have to state the face value of the ticket in the advertisement.
They should set this up over here excellent service from them http://www.stubhub.com/tix100-ticketcenter/
