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I remember when the Xbox One came out last year a lot of people were posting ebay listings for digital download games in the form of scannable QR codes and posting those QR codes as proof of the item existing (since otherwise it is all digital). Not surprisingly people claimed those QR codes using the ebay images without ever buying the item.
If you're a performer and you want to sell tickets for a face value of "$50", but generate revenue at the $60 or $65/ticket range, you add on some fees and let TM take the hit from the fans for "gouging" them. It's very common.
In my experience TM fees are for TM. They may share with the venue, but the venue isn't sharing that with the artist. In fact they are taking a cut of the face value from the artist directly.
In fact I've even seen TM take a small percentage of the gross face value!
I read once that some parts of the US have laws requiring X% of the ticket price to go to the performer and that Ticketmaster fees were partly designed to allow the venue to charge its venue hire fees at a higher percentage than is allowed by these laws. Any truth to that?
Regardless of which of these is getting the biggest cut of the "fees", the reality is that in most cases the "fees" are line items used to increase revenue without raising ticket face prices, and TM is not the primary beneficiary.
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
I'm sure it's happened before.
You can order three tickets and you'll get 08737401, 08737402, and 08737403, but the next person to order three tickets will get 08343201, 08343202, and 08343203.
Generally, as far as I've seen, you'd be SOOL. (Shit out of luck, is that an acronym yet?)
They'd probably just tell you to complain at the ticket office (if it's still open they might be able to verify your credit card?) or phone next day.
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 have no in-and-out privileges (possibly due to how scanning invalidates some 24-hour key), so even as a law-abiding consumer, you're stuck at an event for the whole time just to deal with ticketmaster's implementation details.
i'm sure others have said this, but that is definitely a business that wants disrupting. there's so many bits of tech that could make this experience better and safer for consumers, but i suspect ticket fees are more profitable than user experience.
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.
In theory it should be simple to identify who you are in conflict with if the ticket is not general admission. They would just have to send an usher to the seat. However, it is difficult to determine who defrauded who without a whole lot of investigation.
You would have to establish the entire chain of custody for both of the tickets. Three possibilities with different culprits are: the original purchaser double sold the tickets, a third-party got the barcode and sold a fraudulent ticket to whoever is in your seat, or the person in your seat made the fraudulent ticket themselves.
Though if you take a picture of the barcode it seems like you're just asking for trouble. But people don't really think about those kind of things when they post to social media...
https://twitter.com/search?q=my%20new%20credit%20card%20pic....