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Euphorbium | karma 470 | avg karma 1.41 · 2022-11-19 07:20:03

Interesting how there is absolutely none of this problem in Europe, as tickets are tied to an ID and there is no reselling or scalping.

dottedmag | karma 880 | avg karma 2.38 · 2022-11-19 08:08:58

In Estonia, Germany, Malta or Iceland?

I have never had a ticket tied to ID anywhere in Europe.

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leejo | karma 2146 | avg karma 7.92 · 2022-11-19 10:25:35

We attended a few gigs in Italy this summer. Two of them we bought tickets first hand, they were indeed tied to a name with ID required. Was ID checked? Nope, of course not. One was a medium sized venue (3000), one a stadium, and one small (c. 300).

Tying to an ID is a nice idea in principal...

Another gig we bought tickets second hand, the seller had to go through the original site to return their tickets and then we could purchase them (I wrote a script to poll the site to find available tickets as they had sold out quickly). Did they check our IDs? Nope, of course not.

Requiring ID and having to return the tickets to the original site for resale is probably the optimal solution. But in reality if IDs are not checked it pretty much falls apart.

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