Lawmaker files bill to ban reservation trading apps from operating in Louisiana
The people that can afford these places deserve to lose money to arbitrage anyway, it’s not a priority for any legitimate government.
The problem is that this is screwing the restaurants too, either through reputation damage or through empty tables if the scalpers don’t manage to sell the reservation on time.
I wonder what the third-party app site’s policy is if the restaurant cancels the reservation. Does the “bidder” get their money back? If so, the restaurants themselves should buy up all the reservations on the third party site, then cancel them, then demand their money back (or do a chargeback through their credit card). Make their own restaurant toxic to the third party sites.
the restaurant should get a huge cut of that
Good, fuck scalpers. This is no different from people buying up 15 PS5s and then selling them on eBay for triple the cost. They are adding nothing of value to the world, only helping rich people be lazy.
