Hi!
If you haven’t had a chance to watch the CBS report from the weekend, here you go:
I won’t go into too much of this.
Most of you have a feel for this stuff.
I’ll highlight a few things that this brought to mind for me, though:
First, I’ve been watching the ongoing back and forth between Scott Friedman and Ticket Junky.
It has gotten pretty nasty.
Why?
Scott has highlighted an issue in the secondary market: using multiple accounts to game the Ticketmaster on-sale process.
He called out the activity.
The CEO of Ticket Junky has been going after Scott ever since.
Second, I read Tony Knopp’s idea on bad guys finding a way also about Ticket Junky.
Finally, I read a piece on “State Capture” and corruption in government.
This all coalesced around the 15-75-15 Rule in The Economist article.
The rule comes from police corruption and says:
- 15% of cops drive the corruption.
- 70% go along with the corruption.
- 15% are good.
I don’t know what the exact numbers in tickets would be.
Many people go along because they feel that nothing can or will change.
That’s how I felt about this CBS report.
It is fine.
The resellers come off poorly.
Brooke Silva-Braga has it right when he says that all of these people come to the issue from the POV of self-interest.
It is just like the recent ticket executive order, this report won’t change a thing.
But it is an interesting thing to consider the 15/70/15 rule and think about what real, positive change would look like.
Dave