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0 pointsmatthewowen13y ago0 comments

'Fairly allocating a severely undersupplied stock of tickets without allowing the price mechanism to arbitrate is very hard.'

This is part of ticketing. This is a challenge. So ticketing isn't easy.

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mseebach13y ago· 1 in thread

Plenty of events, in fact the vast majority of them, don't suffer from this undersupply.

matthewowenOP13y ago

That's very true. But it's true for many fields that most of the difficulty/challenge/complexity comes from a relatively small proportion of the cases.

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