Is it ok to sell tickets I have won?

Bitsyvm

Hi everyone,

Just wanted your thoughts on selling gig tickets I have recently won?
I can't attend unfortunately - they don't have my name on them, but it does say £0 price. Is it wrong to do?

Where would be the best place to sell? Ebay?

Thanks

hamsterfan1

have you been asked to supply any ID at the venue. Personally I thin it would be unethical to sell them, I would give them to someone instead.

DynasticDux

You can't sell concert tickets on eBay anymore - they set up another website for doing this called Stubhub, and there is a 12% fee for selling on there ..... http://www.stubhub.co.uk

And yes plenty of people sell "promotion" tickets that say £0 for face value

Or you could search for buying/selling groups on Facebook - that way there are no fees to pay

HoneyBooBoo_2

There's also Twickets but personally if I've won tickets and not been able to attend I've given them away (which I did via Twickets once). Gives me a nice warm feeling inside

Chyna-s

It certainly is acceptable to sell them if you cannot go. They are yours to do what you want with them.

sleepyjones

I don't really see any difference between selling tickets you've won and selling a TV you've won ... I'm not sure how or why it would be "unethical". (If the gig is sold out and the face value of standard tickets is £40, then it would be unethical to try and sell them for £80 ie touting them, but selling them for a normal value, to me, is fine).
The problem with them having you're name on them is that they might ask for ID at the venue, depends on what the gig is and the venue ... if they're VIP type tickets etc.

avelte

ebay restrict most football tickets, the rest try and search see if there are any other similar like yours....by the way do what you want, i gave tons of tickets away, only last night four on fb to someone i dont know but if money needed, sell it.
Good Luck

BlueBella

I have heard of compers selling tickets that they have won online only to find that they have been cancelled/made nul/invalid by the company who gave them away as a prize after they were 'grassed' by certain sore losers! So the winner who sold them had to refund their buyers wh were not able to use them - SO BEWARE!

emg

BlueBella wrote: »

I have heard of compers selling tickets that they have won online only to find that they have been cancelled/made nul/invalid by the company who gave them away as a prize after they were 'grassed' by certain sore losers! So the winner who sold them had to refund their buyers wh were not able to use them - SO BEWARE!

I was one of two winners for some tickets last year and a few days before the gig got a phone call from the promoters to say the tickets had been cancelled as the other winner had sold theirs on. They offered new tickets that I could pick up with ID from the box office. Unfortunately I had also sold my tickets using stubhub so had to cough up for replacement tickets for my buyers. Certainly learned my lesson, either sell for cash to someone you know or dont risk it.

BlueBella

That is why I don't enter to win tickets I won't use myself x

emg

BlueBella wrote: »

That is why I don't enter to win tickets I won't use myself x

The whole ticket thing was a pain and I would have been better just chucking them in the bin but they were a small part of an amazing prize, I kept all the other bits I agree though, I generally only enter for stuff I want and can actually use and I always check the blackout dates on holiday comps (yet to win one though ). I hardly have time to enter all the comps for things I want, I definitely dont have time to try and win the things I dont!