A ticket scalper we'll call Alan, who has 25 years of experience in the business, recently met with one of our reporters to reveal the strange economics
of ticket resellers.
Tickets for the Super Bowl are hard to come by, but if you have big bucks you can still get them through one
of the ticket resellers such as Stub Hub or TicketMaster.
This week news broke that the ticket giant had entered into an arrangement with the Jays that gives the team a cut
of every ticket resold on the site.According to a joint investigation by the CBC and Toronto Star, an estimated 44.7 % of all Rogers Centre seats are posted on StubHub for resale at an average markup of 205 %.
Not exact matches
U.S. - based
Ticket reselling service VividSeats has provided a mid-season breakdown
of just how much hockey fans are paying for a seat.
Rather, they're scraping your personal and financial data on the dark web and using it to purchase and
resell flight
tickets, according to Michael Reitblat, CEO
of Forter.
A posting on Springsteen's website early this year lashed out at Ticketmaster for allegedly withholding
tickets for one
of his upcoming shows and
reselling them at inflated prices on a sister site.
Tickets to Chicago's Pokémon Go Fest event sold out in under 10 minutes for $ 20 each, and many tickets were later resold online for hundreds of d
Tickets to Chicago's Pokémon Go Fest event sold out in under 10 minutes for $ 20 each, and many
tickets were later resold online for hundreds of d
tickets were later
resold online for hundreds
of dollars.
Church leaders have asked sites to ban the
reselling of the free
tickets, and New York Mayor Bill de Blasio called the «practice» disgusting.
Jack Groetzinger and Russ D'Souza, both avid concertgoers and sports enthusiasts, were fed up with the unpredictability
of the secondary
ticket market —
reseller pricing that can swing from significantly higher than face value to cut - rate, depending on an event's popularity.
He was arrested in January, 2017 as part
of an investigation into another defendant's alleged
reselling of tickets to «Hamilton» and other shows.
The average price
of tickets sold on TicketNetwork, another major
reseller, fell 30 percent in the last five years.
A CBC investigation concluded that 2/3
of tickets were snapped up, and
resold, by brokers).
The easiest way to buy is from a partner or a travel agency that acts as a
reseller of the Arsenal
tickets.
Pride
of place at the top
of the attendance capacity table once again went to Swansea City who sold more seats than are in the official capacity
of the stadium — 134 more (though this most likely takes into account
resold tickets via the
ticket exchange).
Some
ticket resellers are hoping fans will pay up to $ 9,800 for a pair
of seats to see The Beatles legend Paul McCartney at the Carrier Dome on Saturday, Sept. 23.
Cuomo's office is monitoring on - line
ticket resellers to nab flouters
of the state's scalping law.
Some scalpers, who acquired
tickets to Trump's inauguration with the intent
of reselling them on the secondary market, are striking out in their efforts to peddle them.
New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman Wednesday morning announced settlements with six
ticket brokers that, collectively, illegally
resold hundreds
of thousands
of tickets in New York State since 2011.
The company also wants to bar re-sellers from offering
tickets they don't yet possess, end deceptive marketing by
resellers, and reject a push by some to require the public disclosure
of ticket inventory, which Ticketmaster says would give scalpers an unfair advantage.
A report from New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office found that third - party
ticket resellers often use
ticket bots to purchase large blocks
of tickets, which are
resold at a high mark - up.
«
Ticket resellers must act in accordance with the laws
of New York State,» the Paterson administration says in a copy
of the letter, obtained by the Daily News.
New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's office said last year that it found third - party
ticket resellers often use
ticket bots to purchase large blocks
of tickets, which are
resold at a high mark - up.
The law also is aimed at the flourishing
ticket reselling industry, making it illegal for them to sell a
ticket that was knowingly acquired through the use
of the
ticket purchasing software.
The so - called «bot bill» creates penalties for scalpers who use
ticket bots, or software that can circumvent limits on the number
of tickets one person can buy, and then
resell them for higher prices.
Authorized
reseller,
Ticket Monster, will run an extra offer between December 20 - 22 where anyone who makes an order during those dates from the
Ticket Monster website will be entered in to a prize draw, with the winning prize being a travel voucher worth KRW 1,000,000 courtesy
of Ticket Monster.
Last week the Forager Australian Shares Fund sold its last remaining shares
of online lottery
ticket reseller
While plenty
of affiliate bloggers will tell you how easy it is to earn with Chase credit card signup bonuses, it's also easy to earn through every other method
of travel hacking: shopping portals,
reselling, manufactured spend, and
of course actually booking paid
tickets.
However, most
of the sites carry the same inventory, as
resellers upload the same
ticket to multiple sites to increase their chances
of making a sale (sounds familiar, right?).
You're never going to make money buying
tickets on
reselling sites, but using these techniques you can start to get your
ticket prices down into the ballpark
of full price box office
tickets.
So they bought hundreds or more
of the best
tickets to a large number
of concerts and sporting events, and
of course
resold them at a large profit.
The men are not charged with
reselling tickets for a profit, since that is not illegal in most
of the US (or in most
of Canada, where only Ontario and Manitoba prohibit it).
Acted as the point
of contact for all incoming sales inquiries and as the primary help desk support for the San Diego Zoo's online
ticket reseller box office.
Here are a some tips culled from a range
of sources including Fan Freedom, a consumer advocacy group initially funded by
ticket reseller StubHub.com, a division
of eBay and Seat Geek, an online
ticket aggregator that helps consumers find the best
ticket deals: Get in on the presale action.