A better way to sell Coldplay tickets

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by cyb0rg0 • 2 years ago

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cyb0rg0• 2 years ago

When Coldplay decided to play two shows in Mumbai early next year, they vastly underestimated how many Indians desperately wanted to see them live.

teeray• 2 years ago

First-come-first-serve is overrated and unfair when it comes to online platforms. They devolve to a lottery that is won by whoever gets their request into the server first. Lotteries that are intended to be such are a fair and equitable way to distribute the right to purchase tickets at below-market rates. It gives you a built-in waitlist too: if you can’t go, tickets are refunded and distributed to the next potential buyer until an actual buyer is found.

jepler• 2 years ago

If you're writing for an audience outside of India you might want to explain what ₹9 lakh equates to, as both the value of ₹1 and the magnitude of the lakh are probably unfamiliar.

(Apparently that's 9x10^5 INR, or in the neighborhood of 10,000€ or $10,000. If you're curious about this system of naming and writing numbers used in India and other countries in the region, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lakh and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_numbering_system#Use_of... will get you started)

shehjar• 2 years ago

Us tech people being tech people, we look at this as a systems design problem but no one seems to be considering what conditions lead to such massive demand for this show in particular. I can bet inadequate supply in general is a major cause, part of which is regulatory issues and red tape.

A better way to sell Coldplay tickets

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