Seriously there are other more important problems to take care of (to me) rather than this but I thought I would comment on this situation because it SHOULD be easy to solve AND IT SURPRISES ME there are no words about this scandal comparing Coldplay ticket issue with other bands like U2 or Madonna (which coincidentally are the 3 most convocatory live entertainments)
I think Coldplay could try what U2's manager did with U2 on the last tour. What U2 did I think it was that 10.000 tickets of every stadium concert must be sold under a certain accesible price to include any musical follower to go and hear them live. I'm not sure if those 10k tickets could be resold. However, I'm not saying that for i.e. (internet explorer) all the 60.000 tickets must match the ID of buyer but a percentage of the total out of those 10.000 tickets should be controlled as to guarantee that these ghost allocations or shady business won't take over the 100% of the 60.000 tickets.
*So to summarize my idea: sell a percentage out of the total of tickets in a venue under a certain price ALSO with match ID of buyer or who he declared he is buying them for (giving the option to gift them ONLY once and AT THE SAME TIME he is buying them, for ie. if the father buys the ticket for his son; also the reason to use match ID on these accessible tickets is that if you really want to see your favourite band live and you don't have a lot of money, the chances of you not attending are greatly reduced to near zero because spending your little money or what you have saved into something secondary like an spectacle shows your interest, that you really want to go or else don't spend your little money on it: This doesn't mean that people with money doesn't have interest in what they spend their money, I'm saying that those accessible tickets should exist and they should be controlled so they are not abused by the companies showed on video, and I'm trying to not get anymore thinking on this cause if you don't have money why are you trying to go to a concert right? But anyways we are people and we are free and we can chose in life).
*I swear I tried to summarize.
-> With these accessible tickets you (kind of) compensate that the person who really wants to see them and does not have much money can still go see it. Even if 9999 tickets out of 10000 the accessible tickets that were meant from Coldplay to be sold to people with low economic resources but high interest in the band are bought by "rich" concert attendees, 1 could get the ticket. And it can be 1 as it could be the 10.000. What do I mean with this big explanation, I mean that you let the luck and random play a role in it, letting out all those money grabing **** websites that resell tickets.
This whole explanation is sad because I should be saying that this should apply to the total tickets but I'm conciouss that promoters and producers want to make money no matter how as you can see in the video. But what do you prefer them letting get control of the total or secure a portion of the total as the very least in grattitude to your musical followers. And it's very important to say that all this apply if the band cares about their fans which I honestly think they do for many reasons it would be long to explain and stories of coldplay fan can express and this is why I take my time to write this which I'm trying really hard it to not be longer than 10 minutes as that's the time it takes Chris to write a hit single.
-> Of course there are going to be people that instead of buying the most expensive ticket is going to buy the most accessible ticket but there would be no problem with that because in that situation there is a kind o laissez faire in the selling but between real people with ID not big companies. With accessible tickets you also make sure viag**** or other reselling websites are not going to get hold of the tickets cause there's match ID and of course promoters won't get hand of those tickets as they will with the rest.
I don't care who buys what as long as there are no shady business in the transactions. I can't stand that bs companies like viag**** or others ruin the dream of any music follower just because they want to make money. Because REALLY they are a band and they perform in front of people (US) and not in front of seatw**** shady businessmen (THEM -- Later with all the earnings they can hire a private show from Coldplay and let me ask you Coldplayer: IS THAT FAIR TO US? I HOPE NOT! )
-> This is something to think about and continue development. I hope Coldplay's manager Frank (who I don't recall his last name (hopefully not O'seary xD) but seen many times around stage) thinks of a solution of this problem, or takes this idea into account, or resign and whatever he thinks is the best suitable out of those options which are all very inteliggent solutions or at the very least demands a solution to whom he should ask the solution to SO WE FANS AND OTHER PEOPLE CAN avoid this kind of drama where money gets in the way of peoples feeling and in worst scenario the ticket is not sold and the seat where a person wanted to be remains empty.
-> I hope you get the idea of this big pile of words that as you can see I can't put it in better words cause I'm still learning english (I may edit this later to patch some thinking bugs). Comment what you think of the whole pile of words, of some, anything counts to help this problem get solved and I'm sorry if any of the ideas written here seem without sense, some are but some of them not meant to be like that .
As always, this is after reading other coldplayers ideas here and there and reading other forums like u2start.com and others.
-> Thanks Coldplaying.com and the community for letting me express what I feel without much trouble [video=youtube;PHpnU5nH83k]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHpnU5nH83k
(He's not even playing the piano lol)