Consumers dislike vendors that are not transparent about processing fees. Reselling tickets on secondary sites such as StubHub, an online ticket exchange owned by eBay , for a higher price than the original ticket is also an issue. Many consumers view it as unethical, according to the Aventus report. Sellers are able to name the amount they want for tickets on StubHub, said Aimee Campbell, a spokesperson for the company. StubHub gives vendors guidelines, but will not place caps on ticket prices.
Some sites also use bots, computer programs that help vendors acquire tickets quickly, to list tickets for a higher price on another site. This means fans could be paying more for a ticket than necessary. It's a battle the large ticket vendors are constantly fighting. Primary sites such as Ticketmaster spend "an incredible amount of resources dedicated to fighting bots," said Justin Burleigh, chief product officer for Ticketmaster North America. If you're excited about seeing an adored artist or important game, it might be easier to miss red flags when buying tickets online.
Scalpers generally have real tickets to sell while scammers do not, said Katherine Hutt, a national spokesperson for the Better Business Bureau. Both are financially motivated and use a combination of scarcity and immediacy to lure consumers. A week later paypal tells me buyer never received the item and is disputing the claim.
Paypal sides with the buyer and the bank and asks me to return the money. The concert was already passed!! They ask for the money back. In the end the guy got two good tickets for free and screwed me over. Big time scam! Watch out going through paypal. After reading this discussion I am pretty almost certain that I just dodged a bullet. Maybe the details of my story might help someone else…. When I met him outside of a UPS store — not at an apartment of place of business — flag 2 — lots of warning bells started going off.
He also seemed to be a bit too prepared for my questions — he knew exactly how to bring up a sample of the ticket online so that he could show me that they were legitimate flag 9. So — I walked away and was even able to avoid getting hit in the head and robbed of my cash! I have bought tickets from Craigslist multiple times to concerts with no problems but now reading these stories has me a little worried.
I found basketball tickets that the guy is selling off individual games from his season tickets. If I pay thru PayPal and get the tickets electronically is my purchase covered? Is there a way to verify the tickets when i receive them? I know this is an old thread, but if people see it now, some helpful info. Just saw PINK tonight, barely. My daughter bought two tickets in Section 3, and then found 2 tickets in Section 2 on Craigslist. She went back and forth with this guy with all the assurances that they were real, then she went through Paypal to pay him!
Apparently not. So we ended up going to the concert, showed them the printed out tickets on paper and voila! They let us in! We were pretty excited. Sold the other 2 tickets in the upper level through Craigslist 45 minutes before the show because two other people had just gotten scammed. They were so bummed, they took a chance with us and got in to see the show.
HOWEVER, we sat in our seats for about 20 minutes before we were approached by the real owner of the tickets and had to move. They had i. With the names that were on the ticket. So bummed and embarrassing! We got pretty lucky though.
Went down to the ticket office and after a stern warning never to buy from Craigslist again, she gave us two tickets in a great spot. She said usually they tell people to go home. Notify of. Oldest Newest Most Voted.
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Reply to Corrie. After claiming to realize their mistake, the buyer asks the seller to send a wire transfer for the overage and asks the seller to arrange to have the car picked up by a middleman pick-up agent. It usually begins with a seller listing a car at an unbelievable price. But because the seller is out of the country, the buyer will have to wire funds to them in order to take possession of the car. You can imagine what happens next: The seller disappears with the money and the car is nowhere to be found.
Con artists know this as well as anyone. They tell the buyer to send funds via Western Union to the escrow account where they will be held until the buyer picks up the car. The problem comes when a spoof email — one that mimics a legitimate site — is sent to the buyer from the supposedly secure escrow site.
From there, you can guess what happens: The seller disappears with the money and the buyer is left with no money, no car, and wounded pride. Fake escrow sites entrap online buyers seeking all sorts of big-ticket items. Proceed with extreme caution whenever a seller suggests conducting the transaction through a particular escrow site or other secure intermediary, especially if they seem fixated on pushing it on you.
Other popular car-buying and -selling websites, such as eBay Motors , are less susceptible to fraud. Unfortunately, many offers of tickets and event passes for sale on Craigslist are fraudulent.
Well-funded con artists with access to high-quality printing equipment can easily create tickets or passes that look exactly like the real thing, sometimes down to the hard-to-duplicate watermark or reflective backing. When genuine, these credentials are worth many hundreds or even thousands of dollars — for example, season tickets and sideline passes for an NFL franchise — and the seller prices them accordingly.
Looking for a job is tough enough, but if you get scammed in your job search, it can be downright disheartening. Some scammers post jobs for nannies and babysitters, targeting the young and inexperienced. They generally offer a nice salary, but not outrageous enough to ring any alarm bells.
These instructions might be things like buying groceries for the new house, taking out an amount for their salary, and paying the rent to the new landlord. From ticket prices to seat sections, you can easily customi Copied to Clipboard. Tags Super Bowl Ticket Tips. You Might Like.
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