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.

[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. :-(

[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.