Last year I went to New York with my best friend for biggest wrestling trip of our lives, Wrestlemania weekend. We had tickets to all the big events, there was just event to complete the set we didn't yet have tickets for - NXT Takeover New York.
I checked ticketmaster, nothing doing, so in the end I ended up buying from Stubhub, buying two tickets for 300 dollars. When I got them in an email I read through the fine print very carefully saying they could not be resold for more than face value, per New York law, but the original owner had paid just 75 dollars for them. I felt disgusted and ripped off by the sellers actions.
I did try seeing if I could find out who the original seller is as their name was printed on the tickets, but searches proved fruitless as they had a very common name.
Scalpers are the bane of concert goers, sports fans and even gaming, nothing worse than someone buying up a ticket or item other people are genuinely interested just so they can flip it to make a profit. Especially as most people who do this are effectively committing tax evasion in the proces, under UK law buying something bought purely for the purposes of selling it is considered a business transaction and as a result the profit is taxable. I'm sure most countries would classify this the same legally, but let's be honest the majority if scalpers don't care.
I really more can be done legally to put a stop to this, Ticketmaster have closed their own reselling site which is a start, but I want the ticketing sites to go much further and stop bot accounts buying up ticket/pre-orders and merchandise en masse.
I checked ticketmaster, nothing doing, so in the end I ended up buying from Stubhub, buying two tickets for 300 dollars. When I got them in an email I read through the fine print very carefully saying they could not be resold for more than face value, per New York law, but the original owner had paid just 75 dollars for them. I felt disgusted and ripped off by the sellers actions.
I did try seeing if I could find out who the original seller is as their name was printed on the tickets, but searches proved fruitless as they had a very common name.
Scalpers are the bane of concert goers, sports fans and even gaming, nothing worse than someone buying up a ticket or item other people are genuinely interested just so they can flip it to make a profit. Especially as most people who do this are effectively committing tax evasion in the proces, under UK law buying something bought purely for the purposes of selling it is considered a business transaction and as a result the profit is taxable. I'm sure most countries would classify this the same legally, but let's be honest the majority if scalpers don't care.
I really more can be done legally to put a stop to this, Ticketmaster have closed their own reselling site which is a start, but I want the ticketing sites to go much further and stop bot accounts buying up ticket/pre-orders and merchandise en masse.
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