Instead of selling tickets on a centralized website, Outbox offers venue operators what is called a "white label" system, in which consumers buy tickets through the venue's website.
If the camera system can't read a label for one reason or another, an image of it arrives at Telecode -- a room lined with desktop stations and employees keeping watchful eyes on screens.
If neither the scanner nor the Telecode department can appropriately identify the offending label, the package winds its way through the system to be inspected by hand.
In Guangzhou yesterday, the German audio company brought along two executives to debut its new authentication technologies on its retail packaging: a shiny Tesa PrioSpot authenticity label plus a "fool-proof" online look-up system.
So you have a two-tier financial system, and then you have a series of issues that I would put in a general label of market infrastructure--and this includes some really difficult issues: Accounting is a matter of great controversy.
Dr Nathanson said everyone using the same system would be "enormously" helpful as people were put off by "having to adjust to a different label every time you look at a different food".