Vans, the sneaker company, has been holding free concerts this summer in its huge warehouselike space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, making tickets available online.
Despite the recession, demand is high for both events, making tickets hard to come by and sending prices for any remaining hotel rooms soaring.
"I have a hunch that cinemas are price-elastic," says Stelios. "By making tickets cheaper, you'll get more people to go see movies off-peak.
Part of the craze is being fueled by the maddening delay in making tickets available.
The ability to tow for parking illegally effectively trespassing serves as the deterrent, making tickets nothing more than a scheme.
That only made ticket buyers feel privileged, or at least inexplicably lucky.
This year, event organizers here replaced their first-come-first-served online ticket sales with a lottery system, which they hoped would make ticket distribution more equitable.
A lot could be done to make ticket brokerage a ligitimate public service instead of an expensive bore.
The telephone call to make ticket reservations on the two Air India flights was placed from the Vancouver home of Hardial Singh Johal, another Sikh activist.
With future improvements to the reservation system, Amtrak plans to allow customers to make ticket changes online, and possibly allow passengers to print boarding passes at home.
FanSnap helped make ticket search a thing.
