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Ticketmaster decides who gets to buy tickets and who doesn't -- they allow accounts that sell on TM resale in first so they make more money

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Ticketmaster favors accounts that do not transfer tickets, to get in queues. A real fan who goes with their buddy, who is transferring tickets to their friends, is getting put in the back of the line for all future events, because Ticketmaster is a monopoly and they treat all transfers as "stubhub sales" and that is a threat to TM resale platform and LYV stock. They put those people in back of the line, and all the resellers who use "transferless links" in the front of the line. This is also why all queues are now 100,000 people. Ticketmaster also of course email fans say "transfer tickets to your friends if they beat you to the gate" with no mention of being placed in the back of the line for all future presales.
This is a monpolistic practice and questionably illegal. #ticketmaster #monopoly @DanWallLN @ScottFriedman3

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@Noobukb that could be #6, but since the government clearly is in no rush to do that, I figured I would include the other 5

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Want to fix ticketing? Here, I did it for you - with these five changes:

1) End delivery delays. Digital ticket transfers already provide a secure way to move tickets and invalidate the sender’s copy. Give primary ticketing companies 10 days from purchase to review orders. After that, tickets must be delivered and available to transfer.

2) Give resale orders the same 10-day deadline. Resale platforms should require sellers to deliver tickets within 10 days of purchase. Lawmakers keep targeting speculative selling in resale bills—so address it directly. Requiring prompt delivery would make it much harder to sell tickets you don’t actually have. This would end "spec selling" as we know it.

3) End nontransferable tours. Transfer restrictions complicate the process for fans and push transactions into less transparent channels. When those restrictions hold, fans lose competing buying options. When they don’t, resale still happens—with more friction, more risk, and as always, higher prices. Either way, where is the benefit to the fan? It is higher prices no matter which way it goes, and a huge headache when a fan has a last minute issue and can not attend.

4) Bring back phone-verified queues. When Ticketmaster used phone verification, queues appeared far more manageable. With email verification, suddenly every major sale seems to have 1.5 million people waiting. Email-only verification makes it easier to flood queues with stockpiled accounts and hope some get favorable placement. Phone verification wouldn’t eliminate bots, but it would add a meaningful barrier.

5) Ticketmaster should not operate a resale marketplace. How can the company that controls the initial sale, sets the rules, and decides who gets through the queue also profit from the resale? And how can it claim it can’t identify resellers when those same tickets are being resold on its own platform? That is a glaring conflict of interest.

Deliver the tickets. Allow transfers. Require resale orders to be filled promptly. Separate the primary marketplace from resale. Make mass queue entry harder.

These are practical changes that would address actual problems fans face. #ticketmaster #noahkahantickets #falloutboytickets #calvinharristickets #siennaspirotickets #billieeilishtickets #ConcertTickets

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@BigDSlangin correction: music festivals should stop shipping wristbands

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the best part is if your plans change 11 months from now, you can't give them to a friend, you have to rely on selling them to someone else on their platform *IF* there is demand. and *IF* they don't drop face value prices. Good luck getting your money back on the event if you bought dynamic/plat pricing. For Noah Kahan, it might work out, you MIGHT get your money back. For the other 95% of shows, the fan is going to wind up eating the tickets a lot of the time.

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@shuth3fr0ntD00R "probably planned"???

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@x6pnda @Ticket_Help2022 @saumil so to be clear, if you live out of the USA, you are not required to give any sort of real identification to list on TM resale?

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@BlueDotFlu wouldn't it have been cheaper for stubhub to just buy all the shares and own skybox?

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@NFTicket

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@ScottFriedman3 @coachella didn't Daddy Yankee retire like 5 years ago

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@Ticket_Help2022 @saumil what ever happened to them requiring Social Security Numbers for being listed on TM resale? Did that stop? Is that the loop hole, zero SS # for foreigners who can't be charged with the crimes?

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@Ticket_Help2022 @saumil they are good with it. the bots resell on TM resale, in exchange for no penalties and spots in the front of the line. It's a win-win for Ticketmaster / LiveNation monopoly

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@garthbrooks Clown

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@carlosxsilva @ScottFriedman3 @SeatGeek "re-selling for" and "listed for" are different things.

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@EliNJERSEY @CheoffreyRoth @forcemm @NoahKahan His fans are retarded and spend thousands

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@brynnelson and you still all pay it

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@xUnderdog21 @sailormarsbarz @x6pnda the thread started by
@sailormarsbarz references 2 days

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@discxnnecthd he will leak more $1,000 tickets out over the next 9 months

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@carlosxsilva @ScottFriedman3 @SeatGeek worth $1k

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@xUnderdog21 @sailormarsbarz @x6pnda 2 days isn't enough? if they give you 2 weeks you won't want the tickets anymore. It is all about the FOMO driving the prices and sales.

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Noah Kahan already adding dates