This is why scalping often occurs in close proximity to events, such as concerts or baseball games, but not within the grounds or stadium. Laws became even more difficult to enforce when the practice became widespread online. If the official website for the event sells out, these sites promote themselves as a second chance. Efforts to make the practice illegal are overshadowed by such websites. Those in favor of the legality of ticket scalping say that going through brokers creates a safe and reliable way to get tickets.
They state that it creates a fair, open market that both parties are agreeable toward. I'd like to preface this article by saying that I'm not a fan of scalpers, although I've used them on a handful of occasions less than 10, more than five. This article came to me because a buddy of mine is going to the 'Bama- LSU game in Baton Rouge without a ticket to see her buddies and party for the game.
Anyway, so here's VFA's quick guide to getting hold of a ticket somewhere other than the ticket office More often than not, the tickets you buy are copies of an original ticket—which means that as soon as you get into the stadium, you're screwed.
I've heard the story a number of times. It's not fun. If this happens, you can always do what a guy I know did at Penn State when he was given fake tickets. He found the guy and got his money back. As a sports fan, I don't like the notion of even missing the national anthem before the game. However, I have two close friends that were able to attend two different Super Bowls by waiting until the end of the 1st quarter to purchase their tickets from scalpers on the street.
How much did they pay? No one ever knows exactly what a ticket scalper paid for a ticket but we do know that no scalper wants to be left with unsold inventory. Hence, scalpers are pretty quick to unload their tickets after an event has already began. There is, of course, the alternative to finding tickets at below face value after a game has begun - not finding any tickets at all. This happened to me during the NL Wildcard Round in my hometown.
That night marked the first night in 15 years that the Cincinnati Reds had hosted a home playoff game when they hosted the Philadelphia Phillies. There were a few ticket scalpers on the street but they all vanished about 30 minutes before first pitch. Ticketmaster introduced its somewhat opaque Verified Fan program in —which uses proprietary software to filter people by how likely they are to actually use the tickets they buy—and says that 95 percent of tickets purchased through it are not resold.
The complexity of scalping in is what makes the private groups seem worth it. But Discord groups are more visible and deliberately more intriguing. Members are encouraged to tweet about their successes—not just individual ticket cops, but also end-of-month payout totals on their StubHub accounts—and tag the group that helped them get there.
The visibility cuts both ways. Will, who also lives near Seattle, goes by s7arbuck in Book of Resell. He invited me to the channel after we exchanged Twitter messages and told me he received about 50 personal messages from fans after tweeting about his spare tickets to the Forum show.
As an actual fan of Harry Styles, he was one of the first in the group to realize that the concert would be a big deal. Before he asked Fashion to add me to Book of Resell, he warned me that some of the chitchat is not something he personally finds palatable. He typically uses the profit on a ticket he scalps to pay for his own ticket, and sometimes uses the advice he reads to help his friends.
The advent of this kind of fan-to-fan transaction was predicted almost three years ago by Ken Lowson, the most famous ticket scalper of all time. When the Wild West days of bots were over—and Lowson had paid his fines—he started a new company called TixFan, which pays real fans to get Verified Fan codes from Ticketmaster and go shopping on behalf of wealthy customers or brokers.
Who knows?
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