A few solutions for lower ticket-prices

Dean Budnick, co-author of Ticket Masters: The Rise of the Concert Industry and How the Public Got Scalped, shared some ideas with Inside Hook about how to prevent ticket-scalpers from inflating concert tickets. Radiohead have limited ticket sales to individuals and forced concert-goers to match tickets with identification. Grateful Dead sold 50% of the tickets to their shows through their own mail-order service and limited the number of tickets that folks could purchase. Taylor Swift started a slow-ticketing model - she meted out tickets to a given show in the weeks and months leading up to a show so that fans knew they wouldn’t have to resort to the secondary market. One of the solutions is to limit the ability of folks to purchase tickets to shows within a certain geographic range.