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KC Feb 16 2007 04:45 PM

Anyone ever buy tickets on StubHub? I was looking at opening day tickets and I'm probably being a duh but if it says Qty2 and $100 each does that mean 200 bucks? Scalping laws in NY limit mark up by like 20% and ebay enforces this pretty strictly (at least they did when I had season tickets for sale) but stub hub tickets look expensive and marked up?

Yancy Street Gang Feb 16 2007 04:57 PM

I haven't bought a scalped ticket in many years, and I think I'd hesitate to do so now. With computers and bar codes, they can probably detect counterfeits or stolen tickets right at the gate. Does Stub Hub offer any guarantee that your ticket will be honored?

KC Feb 16 2007 05:01 PM

I don't know about ticket honoring guarantees, but they're a ligitimate company in my eyes. I'm just trying to get to the root of whether they are indeed scalping overly marked up tickets and if each means each or if it means for a pair when marked Qty 2.

Yancy Street Gang Feb 16 2007 05:06 PM

I agree that they're legitimate, but they act as resellers for someone else. And the someone else they're selling for may not be trustworthy. eBay is a legitimate company, but you can get ripped off buying from them, too.

KC Feb 16 2007 05:13 PM

eBay has some safe harbor stuff built into their policies. It may take awhile, but if you get screwed they unscrew you. At least that's the way I under- stand safe harbor policy. I'm just totally unfamiliar with StubHub ... and a little leery.

Gwreck Feb 16 2007 08:04 PM

You can deal with Stubhub with confidence. They have a guarantee (up to $1000) that your ticket is good and will arrive in time for the event, etc. They do a lot of playoff ticket sales because you can buy for "if necessary" games and they will give you a full refund (of what you actually paid) if the game isn't played. Of course, it's not cheap. Prices tend to be higher there on the resale market than eBay. All prices are per ticket. Also, it isn't until you check out that you realize you're paying a 10% service fee, plus shipping (an additional $15). The seller pays a 15% service fee as well. --- Of course, ticket scalpers are evil and StubHub is a terrible, evil company.

abogdan Feb 16 2007 09:59 PM

You can also buy day of or day before the game tickets through stub hub. They set up a booth at the hotel across the GCP from Shea for you to pick up your tickets before the game. I've never done it, but have heard success stories from others who have. At various times during the playoffs last season, you could get really good deals on tickets the day of the game.

KC Feb 16 2007 10:22 PM

Thanks for the input, guys.

Frayed Knot Feb 17 2007 09:49 AM

Supposedly the Yanquis are trying to clamp down on ticket-holders whose tickets wind up on Stub-Hub - to the point of taking them away if it continues. Of course, rather than doing so under the guise of stopping scalping it's thought that their eventual aim is to set up their own re-sale agency and thereby keep all the markups to themselves. The Cubs* have been doing this for a few years now and it wouldn't surprise me if this kind of 'in-house' scalping becomes the wave of the future. * Except that the Cubs took it one step further and became really slimy. What they're doing is to offer tickets for re-sale that were never really offered to the public in the first place. The club simply "sells" a number of tickets directly to a broker - but one that they themselves own - who then re-sells them at a markup to the public who never had a crack at them at their supposed face value.