Spotify will start reserving concert tickets for fans

Post by seanalltogether » Fri, May 22, 2026, 10:15 AM UTC

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Non-transferable tickets suck for their own reasons. Someone in a group gets sick or otherwise can't make it? Their seat is now either empty, or their ticket goes back to the pool. They can't give that ticket to someone else. That's a big deal for a whole slew of reasons. Let's pick just one reason and run with it. Five 11-year-old-ish girls want to go see Olivia Rodrigo. These kids haven't ever even been inside an a…

The UK is proposing a law that will make it illegal to resell a ticket for greater than the face value. That honestly seems like a very pragmatic solution to me.

Post by acomjean » Fri, May 22, 2026, 10:53 AM UTC

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This sounds like what fan clubs and artists run communities are built for. Does Spotify putting itself as a middle-man help much, considering the artist has become a big enough operation to have to care about the issue in the first place ?

In an ideal world, the artist's own mailing list or fan community would be the canonical place for this, because it's closer to a direct relationship

Post by mike-cardwell » Fri, May 22, 2026, 11:52 AM UTC

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> Why should anything be done? Because there is demand for it. A lot of people like going to live music and theatre events and scalpers make it more difficult and more expensive for them. Why shouldn't anything be done? Because capitalism is God?

A lot of people like going to live music and theatre events and scalpers make it more difficult and more expensive for them Scalpers make it possible to get a ticket at market price, instead of maybe being able to get it for less and maybe not being able to get it at any price. It's not at all clear that the latter is better.

Post by mike-cardwell » Fri, May 22, 2026, 12:00 PM UTC

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In the UK they're making it illegal to resell tickets for more than the original cost. That should deal with the majority of the problem.

Scalpers will just do two transactions, one high one for the privilege of being able to buy the ticket, and then the sale at the listed limit. No, the real solution is to make tickets strictly id-bound and non-transferable in any way.

Post by lbreakjai » Fri, May 22, 2026, 12:19 PM UTC

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There's a very easy solution. Put the name of the owner on the ticket. Limit the number of tickets per person. Verify the identity before entering the premises. Allow the resale at face value via the organiser's platform. Allow to resell your ticket at face value to a specific person, for the case where the friend who bought the tickets six months ago is suddenly sick. I don't know why this is being made to look like…

> Allow to resell your ticket at face value to a specific person, for the case where the friend who bought the tickets six months ago is suddenly sick. This allows scalping. And then, since scalping is not prevented, all that these measures really accomplish is to theatrically increase the burden for everyone else.