Ticket scalping is a growing problem for the entertainment industry, with some concert tickets, worth 25,000 yen, being sold online for 300,000 yen, for example. What's the best way to eradicate ticket scalping?

Perhaps issue them in the buyers name and you have to swipe your credit card (that you used to make the purchase) and the point of entry.    Could work.

Perhaps issue them in the buyers name and you have to swipe your credit card (that you used to make the purchase) and the point of entry.

But what if I buy tickets, then can't go, and give them to my friend instead? It's not scalping. I'm actually losing the cost of the tickets by giving them away free.

SimondB.

Won't work for people that don't have or use a CC.

Verification of ID could work but will slow down entry into the concert and won't work for Tickets given as Gifts, etc.

Scalping won't go away. Some people now sell Divorce applivation forms online for 300Y plus, free at City-Hall

I was at the Cowboy Junkies gig in Osaka this year, and our tickets were checked probably four times from showing up at the door to actually getting seated. It was a smallish venue of course - Blue Note-style. Simply impossible with huge arenas.

No paying the ticket ?

"If you find the answer, you would have found a cure to stupidity"

Here's a simple idea; make the tickets more affordable.

eradicate?

impossible.

The police could raid the fan club organizations that sell the primium seats to club members first, who then turn around and put them on Yahoo auction, so they'd have to raid Yahoo.jp too.

like I said, impossible.

learned a lot about the ticket scam looking for Yellow Monkey seats. Some were a little legit, they must have gotten a bunch of free tickets and selling them around normal prices.

anyway, much more important things for the Gov/police/Justice to address than this.