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Originally Posted by michelej1
First, those captchas are largely futile: resellers employ captcha-dodging robots, or "bots," that buy thousands of tickets in minutes—one purchased 1,012 tickets to U2’s MSG show last July in 60 seconds. Ticketmaster has revealed that bots can account for 90% of their web traffic, but they only enforce ticket-purchasing limits at the request of the artist, which seldom happens because that would entail canceling thousands of purchases.
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A solution that most industry participants agree is effective at reducing broker activity is the use of non-transferrable “paperless tickets.” Unlike paper tickets and electronic tickets that are freely transferrable from the buyer to another person, non-transferrable paperless tickets require an event attendee to present the credit card that was used to purchase the ticket. As a result, the initial purchaser typically must be present to use the ticket.
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FM tickets are much easier to get than some others though.
i've been trying to get Springsteen tickets for the DC area shows of the last 3 tours he had - it is impossible though TM, and i don't want to pay $1000 on stubhub to sit behind the stage.
his show in DC is tonight. i tried getting into TM when tix first went on sale, it was impossible. i tried when more tix supposedly dropped. you get in, it makes you wait for 10 mins, only to tell you "no tickets available at this time, try again later". i've been trying for the last 2 days, and today too. TM doesn't say that it's sold out, but you cannot get a single ticket through their web site - you keep getting try again later after going through "bots-battling" steps, captcha, etc. and supposedly his tix for DC are paperless credit-card based. so it's all complete bs.
not being able to get a single ticket, anywhere in the arena since the day tix went on sale?? ridiculous.
Bruce announced new dates of his tour. i can bet it will be the same again.