Buying Tickets through Craigslist or Ebay

[94GRAD]

Be careful, sometimes they are counterfeit. That is all.

[pizza delivery]

Don't buy etickets on Stubhub either, or from anyone where all you'd have to do is print out 100 tickets and sell them on the street.

[Kahns Krazy]

eBay generally has much better buyer protections than Craigslist (which has none at all). I think Stubhub also has some.

None of that does you any good if you're standing at the gate of a sold out game, but at least there are ways to get your money back through the more established resellers.

Craigslist is buyer-freakin-beware.

[Emp]

This thread should probably be posted in the ticket section as well.

Curious, PD. My brother scalps many tix through StubHub and has never been burned. Is this based on actual experiences?

I cruised and purchased actual tickets through CL last night, and since I have the guy's phone number and name, I felt quite comfortable purchasing two tickets for friends. I had a higher degree of comfort from actually meeting him face to face and checking out the tickets first.

[D-West & PO-Z]

Don't buy etickets on Stubhub either, or from anyone where all you'd have to do is print out 100 tickets and sell them on the street.

I have never had a problem with Stubhub and I have used it many many times. They have a guarantee too. So you would get your money back. Then I could scalp tix too for better seats at a better price which I should have done all along.

[XU05and07]

Don't buy etickets on Stubhub either, or from anyone where all you'd have to do is print out 100 tickets and sell them on the street.


I have never had a problem with Stubhub and I have used it many many times. They have a guarantee too. So you would get your money back. Then I could scalp tix too for better seats at a better price which I should have done all along.

Stubhub is an ebay owned company and has many of the same security features and buyer protection.

You can get your money back if they come up counterfeit, but you might miss the game

[STL_XUfan]

I haven't had any problems buying tickets on stub hub.

Also be careful buying them on the street. In DC, my friend bought a few scalped tickets that appeared to be very legitimate. It turned out that the person reported the tickets lost, had a set reprinted, and then sold the void tickets.

That being said, I have bought plenty of tickets on the street over the course of my life and that is the only problem I have ever had.

[pizza delivery]

Here's what happened:

I posted my Reds playoff tickets on Stub Hub. Went to sleep. Next morning they didn't show up as being posted. So, I took my print outs, sold them outside the stadium, and went in to sit at my seats. Well, during the 4th inning, one dude I sold one to gets my attention and asks to speak with me. Turns out his ticket didn't work because the people sitting next to me had bought online and got to the gate first. (remember it didn't show as posting anywhere in my account). Thankfully, I didn't get my ass kicked. The other dude I sold a ticket to said he came down from Detroit. It's bad enough to be from Detroit, right? Well, to this day, I feel bad for that guy I "stole" 80 bucks from.

I did call Stub Hub on this and she told me it was a known loophole and she's had this happen before. If I were this guy:

http://i.cdn.hbo.com/assets/images/series/the-wire/episodes/5/51/more-with-less-01-1024.jpg

I know how I would make my crack money: Duplicating Stub Hub E ticket print outs. For a game like the Superbowl, sheeeee, you could make thousands.

Fair warning, don't buy tickets from me, and don't buy tickets that are printed off Stub Hub.

Had the people who bought from me on Stub Hub gotten there after the people who bought from me on the street, they would've gotten their money back. I could've been arrested under crazier circumstances, as well. The Reds loss notwithstanding, it kind of ruined my day.

[coasterville95]

The ticket resale market is risky all around. I agree about never craigs list. (that's funny iPhone autocorrect just changed craigs to fraud).

Stunhub has the big fees but also a guarantee. I've bought on eBay and had a positive experience. I've sold tickets on eBay. Also positive experiences. Print at home tickets are to be avoided at all costs. Too easy to cheat those.

I hadn't heard of the reprinted hard ticket scam before. You realize the purpose for putting barcodes on tickets is security and to add a big cloud of doubt in the resale market. No way to tell if a ticket has been used or is real or hasn't been sold to others as well. I realize these scams went on before the bar codes but at least the venue is protected.

[theprofessor]

There are no e-tickets for the ncaa tourney so definitely don't go for that. I have bought and sold tickets on ebay and stubhub without any fraud. There is some risk, of course. Honestly, in my experience you are better off buying from someone near the arena, esp if you are willing to wait until game time. I expect if patient, you could get in the game for $50.

One thing to beware of that I see often on ebay is will call. No such thing at the ncaa tourney. The individual universities have a will call, but in the NCAA tourney arenas I have been to, you cannot leave a ticket for someone else.