Selling event tickets on ebay - now stubhub

pompeypaul25

Hi,
Just listed some concert tickets on ebay tonight for an event I can no longer attend :-(
Had 100 page views and 3 watchers in an hour and now my listing has been cancelled by ebay because of new 'rules'.
I see a lot of other listings disappearing as well,
Seems you can no longer list tickets as an individual and have to go through stubhub which has a nasty corporate feel to it?
Not only that but when you search for the tickets the stubhub options come after the regular ebay posts.

Here is ebay's message
[FONT=Arial, Verdana]Dear (xxxxxxxxxxxxx),[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Verdana]We appreciate that you chose eBay to list your listing(s). However, we have removed your listing(s) because it breaches our Event Tickets policy. [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Verdana]181166671340 - 2 x Robbie Williams standing/unreserved seating tickets Wembley 5th July Friday[/FONT]


[FONT=Arial, Verdana]Why did we remove your listing?[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Verdana]Kindly note that eBay has moved our Concert, Theatre, Sport, Comedy, and Festival tickets categories to StubHub.co.uk, eBay’s dedicated ticket marketplace with effect from May 9, 2013 and buyers and sellers will be redirected to StubHub. It’s no longer possible to list new tickets in these categories on eBay.co.uk; instead, you can list your tickets on StubHub.co.uk and you can continue to list tickets for cinema, museums, theme parks and experiences on eBay.co.uk.[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Verdana]We've shared this in our help pages - http://sellerupdate.ebay.co.uk/spring2013/ticket-sales-move-StubHub[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Verdana]Try StubHub.co.uk - No listing fees, no PayPal fees and no delivery charge. For more information on how to list your tickets on stubhub, please follow this link: [/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Verdana]https://sell.stubhub.co.uk/sell[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Verdana]We appreciate your understanding and co-operation in this process. [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Verdana]In accordance with our User Agreement, items prohibited by law or by eBay policy are not allowed on eBay.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Verdana]Concert, festival, sports, theatre, and comedy tickets must be listed on StubHub.co.uk, eBay's dedicated ticket marketplace. Other types of tickets listed on eBay.co.uk, such as cinema, experiences, or theme parks, must comply with eBay policy guidelines.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Verdana]Business sellers offering tickets for sale to consumers on eBay must comply with the Price Indications (The Resale of Tickets) Regulations 1994 (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/uksi/1994/3248/contents/made). The main requirement is that the face value of a resold ticket must be made clear to the consumer at the point of sale. [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Verdana]eBay requires that all sellers, both individuals and businesses, include this information in their eBay listing description when offering tickets for resale on eBay.co.uk.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Verdana]eBay does not permit the sale of tickets to events where all tickets are free to the public.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Verdana]For charity events where 50 percent or more of the proceeds will be dedicated to charity, sellers must:[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Verdana]- Donate at least 20 percent of the final sale price of the listing to a charity of their choice via eBay for Charity[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Verdana]- Be registered with eBay for Charity[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Verdana]- Not offer one-day or three-day listings[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Verdana]To learn more about our event ticket policy and guidelines, go to:[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Verdana]http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/contracts.html[/FONT]


[FONT=Arial, Verdana]All fees related to this listing have been credited to your account. We also notified members who placed bids on the item that the listing has been canceled. [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Verdana]IMPORTANT NOTICE: If your listings breach eBay policy in future, your eBay privileges could be suspended. We value you as a member of our community and wish to continue this relationship, so we must ask you to refrain from further breaches of the User Agreement and eBay policy.[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Verdana]Please review eBay's Prohibited and Restricted Items guidelines and User Agreement by copying these links into a new browser window[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Verdana]http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/sell/item_allowed.html[/FONT]
[FONT=Arial, Verdana]http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/policies/user-agreement.html[/FONT]


[FONT=Arial, Verdana]For more information on why eBay removes s, or to write to us with questions, please copy this link into a new browser window:[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Verdana]http://pages.ebay.co.uk/help/confidence/listing-ended.html[/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Verdana]Thank you for your cooperation in this important matter.[/FONT]


[FONT=Arial, Verdana]Regards, [/FONT]

[FONT=Arial, Verdana]eBay Trust & Safety[/FONT]


[FONT=Arial, Verdana]H5173[/FONT]

mjm3346

I think they announced it was coming at the beginning of the year, this is one of the more recent threads about it in the e-bay section

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=4630759


Here's the article

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/bills/article-2265885/EBay-stop-selling-event-tickets-push-customers-StubHub.html?ito=feeds-newsxml


Fees are not cheap

StubHub takes 25 per cent of the final sale price

robbies_gal

its a joke genuine people trying to sell tickets are now getting ripped off-u dont get paid till after the even and there a massive fee

surfboard2

You might want to remove your ebay ID?

Maybe try selling on gumtree?

6969annw

there's loads of selling pages on facebook :-) Don't have to use ebay. Ebay is always a last resort for anything i'm selling lol

pompeypaul25

Thanks for the suggestions. I listed on Gumtree 4 days ago and have 11 page views and no offers, tried listing gift vouchers on there as well in the past with no success. Not tried the Facebook buy, swap, sell option yet, but both of these are limiting to the local area and geared up to cash on collection? I did offer PayPal and postage on the Gumtree ad though.

mclarkie

I've never sold tickets, but I have seen this site a few times, when I've been googling

http://www.viagogo.co.uk/SellTickets?AffiliateID=638&gclid=CNWBjr-LibgCFabLtAodCUAAFQ&PCID=PSNBGOOUKGENSell741CBD804F-000203

pompeypaul25

mclarkie wrote: »

I've never sold tickets, but I have seen this site a few times, when I've been googling

http://www.viagogo.co.uk/SellTickets?AffiliateID=638&gclid=CNWBjr-LibgCFabLtAodCUAAFQ&PCID=PSNBGOOUKGENSell741CBD804F-000203

Thanks, checked it out and much the same as the stubhub offering, 25% fee (they say the buyer pays 15% but it is effectively 15% off the sellers price)

"viagogo charges a percentage of the ticket price and this is consistent across all sales for all events, namely 15% of the ticket price to the buyer and 10% to the seller. These fees help us to cover the costs of upholding our guarantee, maintaining our secure online ticketing platform and providing customer support 12 hours a day, 7 days a week.

Buyers are also charged for the recorded delivery of their tickets, which varies depending on where the tickets are being collected from and delivered to."

Livvy72

They are just greedy pigs!!!!!!!

clutha_2

yep, been burned with that too but I was successful on gumtree. Maybe it depends where you live, I'm in a city. There's also seatwave.com. Their fees are 10% + vat which is about the same as ebay (ebay final value fee is 10% + paypal which is 3.4% + 20p on of the total price including postage)

[Deleted User]

There is always Scarlet Mist too, they don't allow anyone to sell for over face value so there are lots of potential buyers looking on there