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		ikeboy on Feb 14, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A scalper who used bots to buy millions of tickets... >require showing an ID with a name that matches the name on the ticket Then scalpers would just pre-sell tickets and buy it in the given name. There's an arms race and it's not easy to fight the market.

knodi123 on Feb 15, 2017 [–]

No, you show ID to buy the tickets too. This isn't brain surgery, folks- plenty of venues already do this. It's not perfect, but it's good enough to make scalping not worth the effort.

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