Thursday, December 10, 2009

Does anybody know if it is illegal to sell tickets over face value?

Is it illegal to scalp tickets in Ohio, Colorado or Pennsylvania. I was wondering because I will have tickets for the world series if the Indians, Rockies or Phillies make it but I really don't intend on attending any of the games and would like to sell the tickets. If you can post a link with scalping laws for those states that would be great. I tried searching the internet but couldn't find anything that helped.



Does anybody know if it is illegal to sell tickets over face value?say yes



Yes its illegal everywhere.



Try something El's.



Your ticket of world series publicity, pretending not to know must be perfected.



Good luck



Does anybody know if it is illegal to sell tickets over face value?palace theatre opera theater



yes
Thats fine try ebay.
Yes. It's called 'scalping' and ebay has been banned from doing it in Australia.
I think you can auction them on eBay for the highest bid. I think people do it all the time.
It is called scalping.



If you have tickets to sell, why do you need a profit? Sell them for what you paid for them.
As far as I know scalping is illegal in general but some places just ignore it I would say your best bet would be put them on ebay or something like that and you will get top dollar as well!.
In the United States, ticket resale on the premises of the event (including adjacent parking lots that are officially part of the facility) may be prohibited by law, although these laws vary from state to state and the majority of U.S. states do not have laws in place to limit the value placed on the resale amount of event tickets or where and how these tickets should be sold. Ticket resellers may conduct business on nearby sidewalks, or advertise through newspaper ads or ticket brokers. Some U.S. states and venues encourage a designated area for resellers to stand in, on, or near the premises, while other states and venues prohibit ticket resale altogether. Resale laws, policies and practices are generally decided, practiced and governed at the local or even venue level in the U.S. and such laws and or interpretations are not currently generalized at a national level.



Another issue in the United States is that since ticketing laws vary by state to state, many ticket resellers use a loophole and sell their tickets outside of the state of an event. Therefore, a ticket reseller who is reselling tickets to an event at New York's Madison Square Garden is not subject to New York State's markup laws as long as the sale takes place outside of New York. The majority of ticket brokers in the New York metropolitan area have their offices in bordering states New Jersey and Connecticut for this reason.



Depending on the Ticketing body's conditions of sale, tickets may be cancelled, or the ticket holder refused admission, if tickets are resold at a premium (for a profit). This is so with Ticketek tickets (Ticketek is an Australian based ticketing company). Efforts to clamp down on ticket resale have included labelling tickets with the name or a photograph of the buyer,[1] and banning people without tickets from the near vicinity of the event (where they might otherwise congregate hoping to buy a ticket from a ticket reseller at the last minute).



Online auction sites like eBay only enforce state ticketing laws if either the buyer and/or seller resides in the state where the event is taking place. Otherwise, there is no resell limit for tickets.

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