Putting concert tickets on eBay?

rawr123

could you not sell them on to a friend or relative? that would save some hassle.
also have you heard of twickets? its a non profit ticket organization on twitter that allows users to sell on tickets at face value or less to other twitter users o a first com basis.
good luck and hope this helps:)

patriciaellen

Ebay is cancelling ticket auctions listed in the wrong categories. If you're caught more than a few times I guess you could risk loosing your account.

On the whole it is a good thing for buyers that ebay is no longer allowing tickets to be sold through the site. Too many people have been ripped off owing to the delay between auction ending and tickets posted out. This has allowed rogue sellers to disappear with buyers' money. One Direction is a prime example - tickets being sold today for concerts in summer 2014. There is no recourse if your tickets don't turn up a year after the auction closes. Lots of people had trouble getting refunds for the Michael Jackson gigs because the sellers had spent the profits, never thinking they might have to refund.

If you sell tickets on any of the secondaries (Get Me In, Viagogo, Seatwave, StubHub), you don't get paid until AFTER the gig. This is a good thing, it protects the buyer.

From now on, anyone re-selling tickets for profit must have sufficient cash-flow to withstand the delay between paying off their credit cards and getting paid out by the secondary. This is also a good thing.

tiny_courageous

Considering how many under-face-value tickets I've picked up on ebay over the years, I can't really see how ebay banning ticket sales is a good thing. The extortionate fees charged by viagogo et al make it much more difficult to get a bargain and scarletmist seems to be populated by chancers and unreliable people who never pay up.
Artists official forums and twitter seem to be the current best way of getting rid of excess tickets at the moment.

patriciaellen

That's a good point Tiny, but I think you'll find there will also be bargains to be had on the secondaries.

tiny_courageous

Not the kind of bargains I'm used to getting on ebay (take that for a tenner, girls aloud for a fiver... says a lot for my taste in music does that, but those kind of prices are just not realistic given the fee structures used by a lot of the secondaries).
It's a good job I'm pregnant and the likelihood of me going to as many gigs as I have done previously is therefore decreasing rapidly

27021988

You can sell them on plenty of websites. If they are physical tickets and not in your possession yet. Be wary of the time between the concert and the latest possible time you will have them in your possession. Sometimes its tight and if you need to send them on to the buyer you may have to fork out for super fast and secure postage.

patriciaellen

How is the buyer protected if the tickets don't turn up?

RachVG

Some sellers aren't just selling tickets for profit though - not everybody is out to scam a buyer. I would quite happily have sold on spare One Direction tickets for face value if I had ended up with some - as it happens we didn't because I got through and managed to let my friend know that she could stop trying, but if we'd had duplicates we can no longer sell them on ebay. We'd then be stuck for a whole year before we can get the money back because the reseller would be "looking after it to protect the buyer".

I know there are a lot of scammers around and pointing people towards StubHub is one thing but banning ticket sales entirely is unfair on people like me who have used it - reliably - to sell on extra tickets for face value months ahead of a concert in the past.


In future I'll be using ebid instead - never StubHub or the like, their fees are extortionate.

soolin

RachVG wrote: »

Some sellers aren't just selling tickets for profit though - not everybody is out to scam a buyer. I would quite happily have sold on spare One Direction tickets for face value if I had ended up with some - as it happens we didn't because I got through and managed to let my friend know that she could stop trying, but if we'd had duplicates we can no longer sell them on ebay. We'd then be stuck for a whole year before we can get the money back because the reseller would be "looking after it to protect the buyer".

I know there are a lot of scammers around and pointing people towards StubHub is one thing but banning ticket sales entirely is unfair on people like me who have used it - reliably - to sell on extra tickets for face value months ahead of a concert in the past.


In future I'll be using ebid instead - never StubHub or the like, their fees are extortionate.

I think you will be lucky to sell even at face value on ebid- so good luck with that.

Using search 'concert ticket' 'completed sales' on ebid gives 6 sales since february and not one sold, and only one current concert, the rest were for stubs