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Ok people, we all have our opinions... lol Do we really think they care that much about scalping? In my experience over the past 5 years I have seen hundreds of badges scalped on ebay, i have seen the listings on craigslist. They may wonder on to these sites and keep a few people honest and they may even care about it, however they do not have the time or resources to control scalping. What makes anyone think that they will suddenly start checking id's at the convention center? They have never in the past. Think of it this way... if they had 10 people checking id's at hall E for the general line, it would take hours to get everyone in the building each day. Think of last year badge pick up... how many people are in there helping us at the counter in the sail pavilion? At least 70-100? On Wednesday for preview night only 15k people are supposed to get in and it still takes about an hour or so to get us all in the building. Now triple that each day and reduce the number of people checking badges to 25. Ouch... forget it, they can't do it.The RFID chip is a great idea, it rids them of the counterfit badge. Yes, people are going to sell more badges, but they will be real badges. I think they are willing to sacrifice some scalping for this benefit. It was happening anyway.
IIRC, both RP & CCI management say, the biggest problem is not scalping but Scalping & Forging. So in theory, adding the rfid will prevent forging. the problem comes when a scalper sells a forged badge knowing it will not pass the tap in/out test. To my mind this is the biggest 'scare' to use for people considering buying from a scalper.There is virtually nothing cci or rp can do abt the ebay listings posted, they do try.CCI has ***always*** done spot checks of ID's at the con and they will continue to do ID checks. It will happen, of this I am certain. I also think there will be ID checks at key points- perhaps not at 6am when they're letting folks into the building....but probably at bag/book pick up, etc
I'm drawing a blank right now on who "RP" is, but I agree there will be some sort of ID check, although likely not 100% as in the past.
sry, RP= Reed Pop, they put on NYCC, C2E2, SWC etc
Hmmmm, maybe CCI should just create a highly advanced artificial intelligence to do the ID checking. Think about it! For example, it could it use a pool of data from this year to develop a tactic to check IDs that is efficient for 2017. They could name the AI, ConNet.
CCI has ***always*** done spot checks of ID's at the con and they will continue to do ID checks.
Has this ever actually happened to anyone? I know they say they do it but 2016 will be my 9th year attending and I've never been ID checked. I've never even seen it happen nor do I know anyone it's happened to.