my response

[Matt Condon]

Joseph Presley wrote:
> How would you deal with the logistics? It doesn't sound like a trivial 
> problem to keep track of how many tickets the band sold and to get the 
> money from the band for the tickets they sold.

Fairly simple . . .  Keep track of how many tickets you give the band, 
and expect that you'll get back a combination of money and leftover 
tickets equivalent to that number by the time of the show.  So if you 
give them 20 tickets at $10 each, and they sell 12, you should get $120 
and 8 tickets back.  It can be up to someone in the band to deal with 
organizing how they deal with the tickets amongst the individual band 
members.  Nothing too complicated about that, really.

You could also, in theory, make the tickets that you give each band 
slightly different, so that you can tell immediately when someone uses 
one who they bought it from.  If the amount of money that you've gotten 
from the band isn't at least equivalent to the number of tickets used, 
then obviously there's a problem (I say "at least" because it's possible 
someone might buy a ticket and not show up, but if you're getting more 
tickets back than you've gotten money for, obviously there's an issue).

It's not like you're dealing with a large, unmanageable number of bands 
or tickets here.  Most shows don't have more than three or four bands 
involved at most (many only one or two local bands), and most shows of 
this nature won't draw excessively large numbers of people no matter how 
well you and the bands promote.

Matt