Attempting to thwart ticket scalpers, Billie Eilish is selling supposedly “untransferable” tickets for her new tour. 404 Media has the details on how these tickets can actually be transferred.
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On the Nine Inch Nails "farewell" tour (over a decade ago) they combated scalpers by basically putting everyone on will-call. You could only buy a small number of tickets and the buyer had to show up with their photo ID and go in with their guests. IIRC this worked reasonably well beyond the extra check-in time hassle, but it's unclear if this would scale to Eilish's level.
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