The NY Yankees and StubHub have come to an agreement to allow ticket resales on StubHub. Now however StubHub has to set a floor as to how low Yankees tickets can be sold at. This isn't for hard tickets which you buy from StubHub and they send them to you overnight using FedEx or UPS. These are for print at home and PDF tickets. I understand that sports teams have a right as to how their tickets are resold. It's still bullshit that they can control tickets that I paid face value for and want to sell them for less than I paid. I'm hurting their ticket sales but I'm not scalping the tickets. I'm not making a profit, I'm taking a loss. It should be a free market to buy and sell tickets below face value. The problem with selling hard tickets is you have to get them in StubHub's hands days before the event. You can't decide at the last minute to sell the tickets. With print at home you could list them the day before the game. StubHub would just e-mail you the tickets and you print them out.
NFL teams like the Eagles have switched to no more hard tickets. Electronic tickets only. How would you like buying a ticket printed from a computer outside the stadium from a scalper. You could always end up with a counterfeit hard ticket from a scalper but it takes more work to create one. If you are caught with them from an undercover cop buying a ticket you are fucked. Now let's say two people have a PDF ticket for the same seat.
You can plead ignorance. Which ticket is legit. The first one that hits the gate is accepted. Neither ticket is a counterfeit. I would never buy a PDF ticket from someone outside the gate of a stadium. I can't say never, I did buy a PDF ticket for a Seahawks pre-season game in Seattle for $25. I was willing to take my chances for $25. Outside Lincoln Financial Field for a regular season game Eagles game, never. Scalpers are still out there selling PDF's. Maybe not as many scalpers as before. Say your a dad going to the game with your two boys. You decide your going to buy three tickets from a scalper. You get to the gate and they tell you the tickets have already been used. Your out $300 or so and the guy that sold them to you is gone. The scalping crew just replaced him with another one of their boys. The teams can tell you how great electronic tickets are. How you can reprint them if they get lost or damaged. You can use your iPhone and scan the barcode.
NFL teams like the Eagles have switched to no more hard tickets. Electronic tickets only. How would you like buying a ticket printed from a computer outside the stadium from a scalper. You could always end up with a counterfeit hard ticket from a scalper but it takes more work to create one. If you are caught with them from an undercover cop buying a ticket you are fucked. Now let's say two people have a PDF ticket for the same seat.
You can plead ignorance. Which ticket is legit. The first one that hits the gate is accepted. Neither ticket is a counterfeit. I would never buy a PDF ticket from someone outside the gate of a stadium. I can't say never, I did buy a PDF ticket for a Seahawks pre-season game in Seattle for $25. I was willing to take my chances for $25. Outside Lincoln Financial Field for a regular season game Eagles game, never. Scalpers are still out there selling PDF's. Maybe not as many scalpers as before. Say your a dad going to the game with your two boys. You decide your going to buy three tickets from a scalper. You get to the gate and they tell you the tickets have already been used. Your out $300 or so and the guy that sold them to you is gone. The scalping crew just replaced him with another one of their boys. The teams can tell you how great electronic tickets are. How you can reprint them if they get lost or damaged. You can use your iPhone and scan the barcode.
