Bigben's plan would essentially turn Ticketmaster into a bank. They could invest your funds, offer interest, credit, loans and so on. Oh, and charge you service fees. They're good at that.
I know I wouldn't want Ticketmaster managing my money, so I would be SOL if a show came up that I wanted to see. Furthermore, I think that even if you were a ticketmaster "client", you'd still have to compete with a large base of others for tickets. This would also create a new class of non-clients who are guaranteed never to get a decent ticket.
In the current setup, it's merely technology and apparent randomness that is the obstacle to equal access. Under Ben's plan, you have an economic system defning and stratifying that access. Ticketmaster is a defacto monopoly too. The more I think about this, the more it's not sitting right with me.
This sounds awfully familiar. I'm sure there's a lesson here about economic and political models, but I can't quite get my head around it.