It's not ticket "scalping" if you sell the ticket for face value (or less), right?

[MissMillie]

No one seems to want this ticket. Someone suggested that I may be able to sell it at the show.

[Alexander]

1. Nope, it's perfectly legit.

[bluesbassman]

2. Be careful. Even selling at face value at the venue can be considered scalping.

Plus a friend once sold some tickets like that and was given counterfeit bills. Just be careful.

[MissMillie]

3. Well, I paid nothing for this ticket

so I'm not losing anything at all.

[Taverner]

4. By law, yes. By ethic, no

[MissMillie]

5. hmmmm...

Lainer v. City of Boston, 95 F.Supp.2d 17 (2000).

The court issued an injunction prohibiting Boston Police from " attempting to arrest, threatening to arrest, arresting, and prosecuting any person who attempts to resell or resells any ticket to a Boston Red Sox baseball game in the vicinity of Fenway Park, at or below the face value of the ticket,unless they have probable cause, at the time of arrest, to believe that said person is a person engaged in the business of reselling tickets, and is not duly licensed as required by Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 140, § 185A."


I went to Fenway Park the other day for a Red Sox game. My friend never made the game. Could I have resold his ticket?,

Mass. Attorney General. Scroll down to Question #41. A former Attorney General said, "You can resell your extra tickets as long as you sell it for face value. The Attorney General's Office, the Department of Public Safety, and courts in Massachusetts have made it clear that the ticket-resale law in Massachusetts penalizes only those engaging in the business of reselling tickets. It is the occupation and not an isolated act which is forbidden."

[Taverner]

6. Awesome! Thank you for the correction!

I am glad that was changed!

[HopeHoops]

7. No, scalping is what TicketMaster (and the like) do for a business.

If you tried to do the same thing you would get arrested.

[peekaloo]

8. Ramen.

I laughed in the face of a Ticket Bastard exec a few years ago when he defended their "fees" as a way to counteract scalpers.

[Captain Hilts]

11. Great when Pearl Jam came to Cap Hill to testify against them. I wish more artists would. nt

[jmowreader]

12. That's like burning down homes to protect them from arsonists, right?

A honest scalper could make a LOT of money by selling tickets at a price somewhere between face value and Ticketmaster prices.

[Captain Hilts]

10. I hate them so much that it has kept me from attending a lot of things.

[Captain Hilts]

9. Right. nt