Remember The Thrill Of Camping Out For Concert Tickets?

Everyone of a certain generation has a memory of waiting line for concert tickets or tickets for a sporting event. Sometimes you got there early in the morning, sometimes you even spent the night outside of the ticket outlet to make sure you got a great seat.

I can remember sitting in the Dayton's lobby as a 13-year-old for what felt like four days in 1995, trying to get Vikings playoff tickets. I remember sleeping on Rice Street in St. Paul for a chance at free Limp Bizkit tickets in 2000 (I didn't say we were proud of all these memories). And,  I remember camping outside of the Twins Pro Shop (twice) in 2002, overnight, for Twins tickets.

If there was an event coming to your area and you really wanted a ticket, you could make it happen with enough effort. Sadly, that is not the case anymore.

Now, you are not only in competition from the people in your city hoping to see a concert but instead are pitted against every single person in the world that happens to have internet access. Many people buying these tickets are only snatching them up to flip them for a higher price.

While I definitely would agree that the cat is too far out of the bag to cancel internet sales altogether, why couldn't we have a two-hour window for in-person sales only. A typical ticket on-sale begins at 10 a.m., why not have one or two physical locations open from 8-10 a.m.?

That way, the fans who desperately want to see the show can conceivably get in (for face value even), and the scumbags people who buy tickets only to flip them for a profit can still rip us off. It's win-win!