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Sounds like a job for mechanical turk. Have a bunch of people buy tickets, pay them a dollar via turk, pay the cost of the ticket when you receive it, resell for profit. Then you are not committing fraud, you are just buying tickets from your friends that don't want them anymore. "First sale" and all that.

It's clear that TicketMaster doesn't really want to solve this problem. If they did, they could solve it the same way the airlines did. (Hint: not by having a captcha on the credit card info page.)




sorry i dont get this..how did the airlines fix people buying all the tickets for a flight ?


making it impossible to resell them




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