Glade FTW.

[denny]

Due to our determination to stop ticket touting, we've decided that every ticket will have the ticket holders name and address printed on the ticket. When you arrive at the festival, you will be asked for ID (Drivers License, Utility bill, Passport, Credit Card etc) to prove you are the person whose name is on the ticket.

Every event organiser should do this.

Comments

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Can cause hassle if you buy a ticket for a friend who then cancels - you can't give or sell the ticket on to someone else.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

If you sell it to a friend you can lend them a bit of your ID for the weekend.

I see your point, but I think the fallout from that situation is a lot less unfortunate than the way touts cause events to sell out too early and late ticket prices to skyrocket. Stamping out touting would also make selling forged tickets a bit trickier - there's no 'accepted' distribution channel for them if people aren't expecting to see touts working the event any more.

[valkyriekaren.livejournal.com]

Oh, absolutely - touts are utterly evil, particularly for popular gigs and events.

[deerfold.livejournal.com]

What would also help, and I don't know if glade do this, would be a reasonable system for returning tickets to be resold with at least some chance of seing your money again. The only reason I've ever resold tickets was when people dropped out (for face value+postage costs).

[lusercop.livejournal.com]

You'd trust taking something like good quality ID to a *festival*?

Much as I don't agree with touting, and I really don't, I don't like the whole ID thing either. :-(

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't be particularly upset if I lost a 3-month-old electricity bill.

[olithered.livejournal.com]

...and destroy the data afterwards?

[grandwazooo.livejournal.com]

I think i am Pro Touting - well partly.

buying up all the tickets and flogging them on e-bay = bad

genuinly buying and selling tickets up and down the queue for those who drop out or want to go at the last minute = good.

the trouble with that system is it stops "good" touting as well.

[dennyd.livejournal.com]

I'd rather see venues buy tickets back at 90% or whatever, and re-sell them.