help with selling concert tickets
#1
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help with selling concert tickets
i have tickets to a concert that i can no longer goto...
however i had them emailed to me (ticketmaster) and i already printed them out awhile ago.
if i sell them on craigslist/ebay/stubhub/etc, can i still email the tickets to them and just destroy the ones i printed out? will they still work for whoever buys them?
if multiple copies are printed, is it just the first one scanned that is valid making all other ones useless? if so how can i prove to potential buyers than they will be getting legit tickets?
however i had them emailed to me (ticketmaster) and i already printed them out awhile ago.
if i sell them on craigslist/ebay/stubhub/etc, can i still email the tickets to them and just destroy the ones i printed out? will they still work for whoever buys them?
if multiple copies are printed, is it just the first one scanned that is valid making all other ones useless? if so how can i prove to potential buyers than they will be getting legit tickets?
#2
Re: help with selling concert tickets
People sell pdf tickets on those sites all the time. Of course you can print multiple copies of the pdf. I believe at most venues if multiple people show up with the same ticket, the person whose name is on the ticket gets in. You are bound to the ticket selling sites rules. If you don't honor them, you will be liable for the price of the tickets + penalties.
#3
Re: help with selling concert tickets
You can't really prove to a buyer that they're getting a legit ticket with a pdf. It's a crapshoot, and one that I often pass on for the simple reason that any asshole can print 100 copies, rip people off and vanish.
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Re: help with selling concert tickets

This guy has hooked me up in the past.
Seriously, it's always a risk when you try to resale tickets. I've had success on Ebay and Stubhub buying and selling tickets before, so that's the route that I'd recommend based on experience. Craigslist sounds like a good idea, but it is a crapshoot. There's always that fear that you're selling to someone who has all intentions of legitimately wanting the tickets to actually see the concert, but in truth they just want to screw you over in one of the ways mentioned above.
I always get hard tickets for every show that I see just in case there's the unlikely event that I can't go. Most buyers seem to trust sellers that offer real tickets and not pdfs. Even though real tickets can be forged as well, but obviously not as easily as pdfs. I don't blame potential buyers of being wary of something like a pdf. You never know if it's truly legit until it's scanned at the venue.
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Re: help with selling concert tickets
i think ticketmaster lets you resell them right from their site or one of their 2nd market ticket sale sites . have you tried that?
#12
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I sold some tickets on Craigslist last year.
I had originally bought them online and printed the tickets from the email. Since I thought that'd put a buyer off, I called Ticketmaster and they changed my order from the email tickets to "real" tickets. I just had to stop off at one of their authorized vendors, which happened to be the grocery store right by my house, to pick them up.
I had originally bought them online and printed the tickets from the email. Since I thought that'd put a buyer off, I called Ticketmaster and they changed my order from the email tickets to "real" tickets. I just had to stop off at one of their authorized vendors, which happened to be the grocery store right by my house, to pick them up.
#13
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What if they go to the concert and the tickets don't work. Then they would be out everything they spent going to the show(except for those tickets). Just as much risk on their end. I've bought plenty off of Stubhub, both hard tickets and print, but never sold. I think it's not a bad way to go.
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Re: help with selling concert tickets
You can also try Ticketmaster/LiveNations "premium" service - I forget what it's called but you'll be paying a premium on those tickets. StubHub may also be pricey at times but they're 100% legit. You're basically buying the E-Ticket equivalent.
I would not trust Craiglist. Yes, you can still get tickets through them but it's less secure. IMO
I would not trust Craiglist. Yes, you can still get tickets through them but it's less secure. IMO
#20
Re: help with selling concert tickets
Do not buy tickets off of Craigslist. I've sold on there before (never bought), but I wouldn't advise it.
Look at the Facebook event and see if anyone is selling.
Which show are you looking at?
Look at the Facebook event and see if anyone is selling.
Which show are you looking at?
Last edited by dex14; 01-28-19 at 08:03 AM.
#22
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Looking at Trevor Noah on Feb. 9 at Xcel Energy Center in Saint Paul, thanks. Tickets are still available, but a few people on Craigslist can't go anymore and are selling good seats at face value. Are you all basically saying it's too risky, that I'd be scammed?
#23
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If doing CL, I would only send via PayPal with a CC so it is insured if it goes bad. No friends and family or anything like that. Make sure they use Ticketmaster to transfer into your account that way you know they are legit, not resold, etc. Don't just get emailed PDFs. I would ask to call them and be on the phone while you do the transaction.
Last edited by dex14; 01-28-19 at 01:14 PM.
#25
Re: help with selling concert tickets
I've been using Seatgeek for resale tickets. I believe they aggregate deals from different sites. YMMV, but it's worth taking a look.
https://seatgeek.com/trevor-noah-tic...9-8-pm/4587363
https://seatgeek.com/trevor-noah-tic...9-8-pm/4587363