Selling unwanted train tickets

geordie_taxi

Stigy wrote: »

If you buy a ticket for a family member or friend or something, you've committed no offence because the ticket is being used only once, by the person whom the ticket has been purchased for, and as such your intention is amicable.

so the op as my new best friend has decided that the halifax to london ticket were in fact not bought for them but for me. so if she provides me the tickets and i pay her the face value i havnt broken any bylaws :beer:

Stigy wrote: »

For starters there's almost never going to be reason to doubt a person is using their ticket fraudulently, so circumstances such as this one, are nye on impossible to detect should the OP decide to sell their ticket online or whatever.

is that why gumtree, ebay and facebook of late havnt been as strict

geordie_taxi

rdwarr wrote: »

Please can we not have posts on here advising members to break the law? It does nothing for the site.

i dont think we are :beer: if read the posts after yours. u will see that the stigy is been very helpful explaining the byelaws and loopholes

Stigy

geordie_taxi wrote: »

so the op as my new best friend has decided that the halifax to london ticket were in fact not bought for them but for me. so if she provides me the tickets and i pay her the face value i havnt broken any bylaws :beer:


is that why gumtree, ebay and facebook of late havnt been as strict

Cant answer about their strictness, but it's quite a clear cut case if people are buying them online from the website's perspective. They can restrict the sale of anything they want really. It's just the enforcement issue really.

You have committed an offence given that you'd not realistcally buy a ticket from a friend online, but enforecment would be a nightmare. As I said above, after re-reading the Byelaw anybody really has committed an offence, if you take the Byelaws as their literal meaning. It's a common sense on behalf of the TOC.

Loopholes? I've always said from my initial post in this thread that enforcing this breach would pretty much impossible....Unless of course you broadcast it.

Livingthedream

Stigy wrote: »

It's just the enforcement issue really.

Ebay, Gumtree and any other online retailer/auction sites are a bit lazy when it comes to enforcement they don't actively go looking for rouge train tickets but wait for an outraged ebayer to report the auction, then the auction gets pulled.

This way their seen to be taking action against contraband auctions but if one does get though the system then they profit from the sale, kind of a win, win situation.