Helping people to share their tickets?

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Helping people to share their tickets?

Post by joshuaj » Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:11 pm

Some people intentionally bought extra tickets, hoping to resell at a profit, but plenty of others have admitted to ordering extras just because they were afraid of not getting any at all. I'm looking forward to seeing how STEP will work, but in the meantime, here's a simple/stupid thought: what if people were given a chance, one time only -- perhaps in a week or two -- to return any tickets they got that they don't actually want?

Anyone who chose to do this would get a full refund on the ticket price (but not any processing fees) and their ticket would go to the next person in the lottery who wanted a ticket and didn't get one. This might reduce the number of people who have to resell their tickets in STEP, extending the benefits of the lottery system (which does have its benefits) as far as possible before resorting to peer-to-peer sales.

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Re: Helping people to share their tickets?

Post by The CO » Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:27 pm

I think you just described... the STEP setup.
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Re: Helping people to share their tickets?

Post by International Incident » Tue Feb 07, 2012 11:28 pm

That's a good and well thought through post. Thank you.
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Re: Helping people to share their tickets?

Post by joshuaj » Thu Feb 09, 2012 10:00 pm

Oh, haha, is that how STEP is going to work? Sorry, I guess I didn't notice that they had shared any details on that. I assumed it was gonna be more of a stubhub-type thing.

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Re: Helping people to share their tickets?

Post by knowmad » Thu Feb 09, 2012 10:08 pm

joshuaj wrote:Oh, haha, is that how STEP is going to work? Sorry, I guess I didn't notice that they had shared any details on that. I assumed it was gonna be more of a stubhub-type thing.
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Re: Helping people to share their tickets?

Post by Mosquitopilate » Fri Feb 10, 2012 11:10 am

Thank you for being a great human being and allow me to be the first to say I will buy any ticket you do not need that you put in the STEP program, 1 Ticket that is all, thank you kind one. I just hope there are more people out there with same attitude
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