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So what is being done to fix the problem with scalpers?
We've all seen that the online sales were handled terribly, is there any word of whether effort is going to be made to fix this problem?
Honestly, you should have to have a name registered for each ticket you buy. You can still buy for friends or family, or buy multiple tickets to try and take a group, but have to present ID proving you are who the ticket says you are.
Honestly, you should have to have a name registered for each ticket you buy. You can still buy for friends or family, or buy multiple tickets to try and take a group, but have to present ID proving you are who the ticket says you are.
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Look at this madness!
Honestly, I can't even blame the scalpers here, I have to blame the people who allowed it to get out of control.
If you got in line around 11am, then you were one of the very first to get in the queue. Even 3 hours later they still had tickets. How did you not get a ticket? They even stated there were 1600 people in queue and 15000 tickets left, so everyone who was in the queue (anytime before 12) was going to get tickets.
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The con is popular, but not popular enough that it takes roughly 20 minutes for 4 day passes to sell out. There is an obvious, huge problem with scalpers, and there are suggestions(such as the ones I made) that would have few if any significant downsides to any legitimate users.
We know the following things.
* The great majority of tickets are sold to people who buy and use the passes themselves, or buy them for friends who go to PAX with them.
* Scalpers are a thing that exist and are impossible to avoid. They are also not against Washington state law.
* Naming and shaming them on the forums does nothing but rile people up
* Conspiracy to commit fraud is a FELONY, before anybody gets any ideas.
* It's 2130. I would like to relax after a hard day at work, and play some New Vegas. I just got microfusion cells for my plasma rifle.
* PAX is popular, yes, it's sold-out-in-6-hours popular. A lot of people saw the prices get posted last night, and a lot of people were poised to get passes all at the same time.
* PAX Prime is swallowing more of up downtown, but still has a limited maximum capacity that is easily met by PAX demand.
* No, a scalper botnet did not, as far as anybody knows, somehow bypass everything and steal all the passes.
Okay? So, we're done now.
Yeah, I don't think that should be done. By doing that, you ruin a lot of peoples vacations when they find out their tickets don't work and a scalper just stole their money. The problem needs to be dealt with before the tickets go on sale, not after. You also run into the problem of identifying the people that poses the tickets as themselves. Every year I have gone it has been incredibly congested, and that is without an I.D. Checkpoint.
I agree that scalping is very annoying, but the options to fix the problem are very limited. Most options make checking passes a hassle. Scalping is very lucrative and people will always try to do it.