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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

To me, that is a non-issue. There is a market for people willing to pay for convenience.

Nope: still more likely that I would prefer to pay a premium than have to hit a specific window.

Yes, there is a market, and yes, you'd be willing to pay a premium, but how much of a premium? How much does the convenience cost, how much is it worth to you? If I buy milk at a convenience store it may very well cost me twice as much as it would at the market - but 5 times, 10 times as much?

As with everything else, it's a sliding scale. What would the "convenience market" be if you could come home from work the day the tix went on sale, make a call, not wait on hold for long, and pay the base price? What would the convenience market be if it were 2 days, or a week? How small a window does it have to be for you to consider it a "specific window"?

Not knowing enough about how this would exactly affect the ticket sales limits the strength of my examples, but still, I'd argue that there are plenty of acts that sell out in an hour under the old system that would take over a day to sell out in the new system, simply because the scalpers are out of the picture.

I'm sure that even if you just get the process down to "wait until my lunch break, make a call, wait on hold for a short period, then get my tickets at base price" the convenience angle is rather knackered....because that's actually convenient.