Ticketmaster Scam

[paflyer]

Remember how the girls would spin around and their skirts would go up? I knew I was a boy from a very early age.

I suspect there's some percentage of girls that had they same reaction...

 

[Geico266]

Lots of states have lots of rules.

Some states allow it anywhere.

Some states allow it off premises (Calif).

Some allow it at Face Value, or less.

The earlier poster made it sound like StubHub was scalping, without defining scalping. I have bought many tickets on stubHub for less than face value, so I am not sure if that meets his definition of "scalping", and not sure if scalping is moral or immoral in that case.

Does Nebraska not allow the re-sale of tickets you own? What if a kid gets sick and you can't make the game, can you sell them to your cousin?


Interestingly enough, I can go to StubHub right now and see lots of listings for Saturday football with Nebraska vs Rutgers.

https://m.stubhub.com/nebraska-football-tickets/nebraska-vs-rutgers-10-25-2014-4455924/

Is that illegal?

What we are going to do to Rutgers should be illegal!


I stand corrected! Nebraska does not have a ticket scalping law. It is however illegal to sell tickets over face value within 1/2 mile of the venue and that varies city to city. Weird.

 

[Katamarino]

It is no different than selling a car, and including a "steering wheel fee."

Or an airline ticket with a "fuel surcharge"...like the fuel is optional.

 

[Henning]

What we are going to do to Rutgers should be illegal!


I stand corrected! Nebraska does not have a ticket scalping law. It is however illegal to sell tickets over face value within 1/2 mile of the venue and that varies city to city. Weird.

Not really, why would it be? As long as the money is there for the ticket origination, the American Way is that whomever bought that bought a commodity that they can sell at whatever price the market will bear. The reason for the 1/2 mile rule is crowd control so people don't wait until the last minute to do their ticket deal.

 

[wsuffa]

Not buyin' it.

The price is the price. If you list a ticket price, there should be a means of buying it for that price. If it cannot be done, then there is no "convenience" being provided.

It is no different than selling a car, and including a "steering wheel fee."

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Edit: I remember, a while back, reviewing a TicketMaster contract for a client which owned an entertainment venue. The venue gets screwed, too, IIRC.

We should talk sometime. You remember who my former employer was (it was NOT Ticketmaster).... I have some stories.

Most of the time when I tried thst I was met with a fee at the door thst matched or exceeded TicketMaster. It's a great scam.

Yep. In many cases the venue doesn't want to run a ticket office nor does it have the technology to do so. Ticketmaster comes in and either provides the equipment or the service for a fee that's conveniently added to the ticket price.

 

[wsuffa]

Or an airline ticket with a "fuel surcharge"...like the fuel is optional.

Have you looked at car rental surcharges?

Tire fee, registration fee, airport fee, tax recovery, battery fee, etc.