Showing posts with label scalping. Show all posts
Showing posts with label scalping. Show all posts
Thursday, February 9, 2023

Ticketmaster and the secondary market for tickets, by Budish and Bhave

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 Here's a still-timely paper that was a work in progress for quite a while. Primary-Market Auctions for Event Tickets: Eliminating the R...
Tuesday, April 26, 2022

High prices and moral outrage, by Elias, Lacetera, and Macis

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 Is Uber-style surge pricing immoral, or efficient?  How about price rises during a pandemic? Does discussion of the economic consequences c...
Sunday, August 11, 2019

Allocating scarce positions to avoid scalpers (avoid first come first served): by Hakimov, Heller, Kübler and Kurino

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How to Avoid Black Markets for Appointments With Online Booking Systems Rustamdjan Hakimov, C.-Philipp Heller, Dorothea Kübler, Morimitsu...
Saturday, April 28, 2018

Ticket scalping in Hong Kong

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I don't know how big of an issue it is, but this story on ticket scalping was prominently displayed in the South China Morning Post the...
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Sunday, December 17, 2017

High frequency ticket buying, by scalper bots

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Freakonomics asks  Why Is the Live-Event Ticket Market So Screwed Up? They talk to a bunch of good economists.  Here's Eric Budish on...
Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Hurricanes and price gouging (and watermelon)

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Accusations of price gouging don't just concern food and water and plywood and gasoline: nowadays we evacuate by airplane as well. But ...
Sunday, July 31, 2016

Scalping Hamilton

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The NY Times has the story:  How Scalpers Make Their Millions With ‘Hamilton’ "For most of May, the median price of a ticket on the ...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Scalping tickets to see the Pope

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The NY Times has the story:  After Lottery in New York to See Pope Francis, Some Winners Scalp Tickets Online "Tickets to the Centra...
Monday, November 3, 2014

New markets for restaurant reservations

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Move over, Open Table.  Matt Buchanan has the story in the NY Times:  Can You Uber a Burger? "In recent months, as retail rents have...
Tuesday, January 21, 2014

Scalper resistant Super Bowl tickets

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Assaf Romm points me to the story:  Take that, Super Bowl scalpers! Ticket-lottery winners to get non-transferable tickets "Every y...
Wednesday, September 25, 2013

Why it's hard to get hot restaurant reservations or concert tickets (and why concierges sometimes can)

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It turns out you need professional gear to get some reservations: the New Statesman has a report from the front . The Bot Wars: why you c...
Monday, September 19, 2011

Misc. repugnant transactions

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Sometimes some transactions are so repugnant that nothing but an armed response seems sufficient: Multi-agency armed raid hits Rawesome Fo...
Saturday, April 2, 2011

LCD Soundsystem and ticket scalping

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Jacob Leshno (who is a fan of both market design and LCD soundsystem) writes to alert me to some stories about their "final" conce...
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Saturday, May 22, 2010

Scalping world peace as NY ticket resale laws expire

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The NY Times reports on Scalping World Peace, Outside Radio City "The appearance of the Dalai Lama at Radio City Music Hall has inspire...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Wiseguy Tickets

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If I were planning to break the laws on ticket resales, I think I would refrain from calling my company Wiseguy Tickts: 4 Charged in Concert...
Tuesday, December 29, 2009

Scalping free ice skating at Fenway

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The mayor is shocked, the Globe reports Scalpers cloud free skating at Fenway: City protests as rink tickets are hawked at high prices "...
Saturday, November 21, 2009

Restaurant reservations

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An interesting paper by Alexei Alexandrov and Martin A. Lariviere asks Are Reservations Recommended? From the abstract: "We examine th...
Sunday, October 11, 2009

Last minute tickets at sold out Fenway

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The Red Sox, whose home games are always sold out, reserve some tickets for last minute purchase: At Sold-Out Fenway, a Way in for Patient F...
Tuesday, July 14, 2009

The secondary ticket industry (scalping, to you)

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The "secondary ticket industry" has a trade show, meeting tomorrow in Las Vegas, about which they say: " Ticket Summit is the...
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Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Are paperless tickets scalp proof?

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The latest development in the ongoing war between ticket originators, fans, and scalpers is the ticketless ticket. "Ticketmaster is go...
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