Hello @PunchCard,
I honestly see how this process is rather illogical. The alternate option I offered was meant to be another way of someone being resubscribed, it was not intended as an explanation for why the event tool does not have the ability to resubscribe. I agree that it seems like people paying for an event is a rather definitive way of confirming that they want emails about that event, and personally I don't think anyone but the original engineers know. I know that our event integrations with other systems do work as expected with contacts who have opted-out, and we're going to keep passing on these requests to the design team.
I do know that we've done quite a bit to improve and deepen our integration with Eventbrite. Through that, you could have contacts signing up for events, receiving the correct 'Thank you' or other transaction based emails, without the contact having to resubscribe to your general newsletter. Again, this isn't a fix to the problem, just an intermediate option while we continue working on improving our system in general.
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