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I didn't see any ID checks at all last year. All I got was one overzealous person when entering the exhibit floor on Preview Night. She insisted that the pro (one person in our group) had to use a different entrance at the other end of the hall. Instead he went to the next entrance and they let him in, no problem.
Did see a young man accosted by the event security in 2012, entering the building with a female name on "his" badge. I attended a trade show last week where I was always asked to show ID with my badge before entry, but the wait was never really long to get into the show. Attendance to that show was estimated at 100k, so if they did start checking ID's it wouldn't be to much of a headache.
Never did get stopped and asked to see my ID last year. Last year they sent out the email a couple weeks before saying they were going to start checking IDs stop fight scalping.
Well yes, and that's why making up 4 names and buying badges online would do no good. You need people's faces and ID's to pick them up, so in order for this to work you'd have to know that you have those people in it when you buy the badges.
Same here. Another thing is, if someone wanted to scalp they'd have to know the registration process pretty well. For someone who doesn't care about this type of thing and just wants to resell, that's a LOT of trouble.
The real problem is that Comic Con tickets are underpriced. Yes we all moan about the cost and how much the price has increased, but if they were more expensive (say $100 per day, instead of $40-ish per day) would they really sell out so quickly? In that scenario, the scalpers would be gone because there would be no need for their services. I'm not sure how many people are interested in *that* cure for scalpers...
So to me "scalping" comes off so negative, but if you've ever really wanted to go to an event but somehow did not get tickets for it, "scalping" is not so bad.
I guess it's only negative in the sense that you paid more than face value for a pass, and by doing so you're perpetuating scalping. It is a vicious circle, and I understand that if you didn't buy that over-priced badge someone else likely would have.
The real problem is that Comic Con tickets are underpriced. Yes we all moan about the cost and how much the price has increased, but if they were more expensive (say $100 per day, instead of $40-ish per day) would they really sell out so quickly? In that scenario, the scalpers would be gone because there would be no need for their services.
I don't know; I think price is what CCI's fans dictate, not scalpers. I won't necessarily say that prices are "too low," but I also don't think they're too high. I would pay a bit more for my badge, but I don't think high ticket prices would cancel out scalpers. The only thing, in that regard, that would eliminate scalping is if the prices are so high the event does not sell out: I don't think anyone really wants that (at least, no one short of those of us who would LOVE less people on the exhibit hall floor :P ).