Buying Concert Tickets from Someone Who Doesn't Have Paypal

theonlywayisup

If you are intent on paying for fresh air, only spend what you can afford to lose.

Gumtree is for face to face transactions, cash for the item.

Tell him you will pay in cash when he can supply the tickets.

soolin

I do know we have to be nice to new moneysavers, but why don't people check the site and the FAQ's and advice. One click from the home page got me
http://help.gumtree.com/articles/General_Information/Buying-selling-safely?retURL=%2Fapex%2FknowledgeProduct%3Fc%3DSafety_advice&popup=false&at=Buying & selling safely

Watch out for requests to use money transfer services like Western Union or MoneyGram. These services aren't meant for sending money to someone you don't know. In our experience, it is these forms of funds transfer that are favoured by fraudsters.

onetwothree123

Maybe OP has been living in a cave for 100 years and missed that one as the people above have already said it all, Gumtree ticket scam, just google those terms and read it all at your leisure. Gumtree site themselves have umpteen warning pages up advising people to ONLY trade face to face locally with cash and go along to examine the tickets walk away if they look photocopied! !

If you put your own cash in a stranger on the webs account well you won't get it back if you authorise your bank to send it....you must be extremely naive ,no one surely still trusts a random stranger on Gumtree :rotfl: there will not be any tickets the seller will sound so convincing until the cash goes in then they will vanish....so will your cash .

Register at Stubhub if you are wanting to spend money on concert tix. They at least are legit and refund 100% if your 3rd party seller doesn't get them to you.

https://www.getsafeonline.org/shopping-banking/buying-tickets/#.Up4ZBuJWDwg

moneybunny123

Ok, I hear what you're all saying (multiple sam also crossed my mind). He says he's now set up a paypal account (to be honest, he may have always had it but perhaps didn't want to lose out on a few quid because of paypal fees).

But now we know that tickets aren't covered by the paypal guarantee. So how does everyone else buy/sell tickets? My husband spent over £200 18 months ago on George Michael tickets purely on trust. He sent the lady selling them a cheque and I'm pleased to say we got our tickets.

Likewise, I recently sold several goods on gumtree. One gentleman posted me a cheque before I sent the item. The cheque cashed and the chap got his goods. I'm well aware there are crooks out there, but some of us are good, honest people.

I'm so confused now. I really want to buy the tickets for a Christmas present but now I'm scared to.

theonlywayisup

See my post above.

Would you rather be confused or ripped off?

moneybunny123

theonlywayisup wrote: »

See my post above.

Would you rather be confused or ripped off?

Decision made, thank you.

(Although I will put the ball in the sellers court - I'll ask him to make the transfer via Ticketmaster and if I receive confirmation that the tickets are in my name, I'll transfer the money).

theonlywayisup

Don't beat yourself up. I have a saying that I stick to....if in doubt DONT.

It works.

moneybunny123

theonlywayisup wrote: »

Don't beat yourself up. I have a saying that I stick to....if in doubt DONT.

It works.

It's good advice, and I'll follow it. But it totally contradicts my motto which is "you only regret the things you don't do in life".

onetwothree123

To be frank, we have all told you so , remember that saying when you come back next week crying as about your Xmas being ruined....if OP insists this is a good honest transaction to enter into, and thinks its legit, well, let them get on with it, I say... some people just won't listen to reason and the cold hard facts about cyber criminals and will be scammed and come back crying on here in a week or so....also Paypal has no protection on them as you know as someone above said, and as for opening a Paypal new account, these are not instantly "set up" it takes at least a week for Paypal to place the two small deposits into a bank account etc. Anyone can also dummy up a fake Ticketmaster receipt email, a screenshot is relatively easy as cyber scammers are able to make very realistic Paypal pages as well.

Obviously, it takes a bit of common sense to buy things and not be scammed ,and if the fraud action website can't convince you to not be so gullible, then I guess no one can .

moneybunny123

onetwothree123 wrote: »

To be frank, we have all told you so , remember that saying when you come back next week crying as about your Xmas being ruined....if OP insists this is a good honest transaction to enter into, and thinks its legit, well, let them get on with it, I say... some people just won't listen to reason and the cold hard facts about cyber criminals and will be scammed and come back crying on here in a week or so....also Paypal has no protection on them as you know as someone above said, and as for opening a Paypal new account, these are not instantly "set up" it takes at least a week for Paypal to place the two small deposits into a bank account etc. Anyone can also dummy up a fake Ticketmaster receipt email, a screenshot is relatively easy as cyber scammers are able to make very realistic Paypal pages as well.

Obviously, it takes a bit of common sense to buy things and not be scammed ,and if the fraud action website can't convince you to not be so gullible, then I guess no one can .

Jeeez, is "sanctimonious" your middle name?! Did you not read my most recent posts that said I was following the advice given. Doesn't stop me asking the "scammer" to transfer the tickets before payment, does it? And, as I said before, not everyone is a crook. You'll give yourself vertigo on that high horse of yours.

Thanks to everyone who gave good advice without insulting my intelligence. Pardon me for wanting to see the best in people.