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Ticketmaster Ticketfast Barcode Format

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Re: Ticketmaster Ticketfast Barcode Format

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Post by cdcarter »

nsfmc wrote: post #21
rtanaka wrote: post #5

Has this happened to anyone? What would happen if you showed up and find that your ticket is invalid. I'm guessing it varies by venue but is there any recourse? I can't imagine they'd just turn you away without at least a little investigation.

this hasn't happened to me, but i witnessed it at Outside Lands SF this year and it is devastating to watch. there is basically zero recourse for the buyer of the ticket that scans invalid and many of them have very legitimate looking pdfs and emails they got from craigslist. neither the ticketmaster folks nor the venue folks tend to be super compassionate in my experience. it's a real mess though, the venues often h…

I just worked admissions for a festival in Seattle, and we have started seeing scalpers actually walk with the customer to the gate, and verify they get entrance. If the scalped ticket isn't valid, the scalper will refund right there. People have stopped trusting scalpers with print outs, because they often don't work. The resellers are realizing this and offering guarantee.

As an aside, many festivals and venues don't disallow re-entry due to TM implementation (I've been to enough TM ticketed events that have re-entry). They ban in-and-out so that you cannot go elsewhere to drink or eat without the festival surcharge and kickback.

Re: Ticketmaster Ticketfast Barcode Format

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Post by colinbartlett »

scintill76 wrote: post #27
LeoPanthera wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

A handy real time feed: https://twitter.com/NeedADebitCard

Anyone know a story behind this? Some of these have to know exactly what they're doing, so are they trolling or joking or something?

Sadly, I am quite certain the story is that people are just naive.

Re: Ticketmaster Ticketfast Barcode Format

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Post by girvo »

nsfmc wrote: post #21
rtanaka wrote: post #5

Has this happened to anyone? What would happen if you showed up and find that your ticket is invalid. I'm guessing it varies by venue but is there any recourse? I can't imagine they'd just turn you away without at least a little investigation.

this hasn't happened to me, but i witnessed it at Outside Lands SF this year and it is devastating to watch. there is basically zero recourse for the buyer of the ticket that scans invalid and many of them have very legitimate looking pdfs and emails they got from craigslist. neither the ticketmaster folks nor the venue folks tend to be super compassionate in my experience. it's a real mess though, the venues often h…

Disrupting ticketing is such a painful thing, but its something I've been passionate about for a number of years. Unfortunately, the way things are run at least in Australia means that venues have exclusive agreements with various ticketing providers, so it becomes exceedingly capital intensive to break in :(

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Post by anonbanker »

derrik0709 wrote: post #7

As someone who works in the industry (but not Ticketmaster) and has spoken frequently to higher ups at TM, people should realize that the majority of the time "handling charges" are a way for performers to generate more revenue from sales while deflecting the bad PR to Ticketmaster. That's one of the services TM provides to their clients (performers/venues). If you're a performer and you want to sell tickets for a fa…

Interesting that you'd create a new account, which parrots a commenter in the previous ticketmaster thread about them buying a YC alum. The only positive comment in the thread, in fact.

What you are saying flies in the face of what bands said when they testified before congress about Ticketmaster [1]. I'll believe the people who swore under oath, thanks.

1. http://www.fivehorizons.com/archive/articles/testimon.shtml

Re: Ticketmaster Ticketfast Barcode Format

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Post by lutusp »

prawn wrote: post #35

Could you use some form of public/private key combination to prove that you have a ticket to something without actually giving away a digital ticket?

Yes -- a scheme like this is used to prove the origin of a digitally signed email without revealing the sender's private key. So there's a model for this functionality.

Re: Ticketmaster Ticketfast Barcode Format

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Post by megablast »

badhairday wrote: post #6

Just this morning I was selling tickets to an Interpol concert in Seattle and realized people on Craigslist were posting pictures of their tickets with the barcodes visible. I'm sure it's happened before.

So you could easily scan it, go in early, get free access to the ticket, and the purchaser is going to blame the guy he bought it off, not you.
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