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Originally Posted by SpitFire40
How exactly is that site legal? I sell alot of my tickets and i'm ok at face and sometimes lower but if I can get more for Primo matchups i'd take it.
Just curious
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I don't know how they get around scalping laws, but I think it's because the scalping laws are provincial/state regulations and you're technically selling your tickets to StubHub, which is in a different province and then they sell the ticket to someone who is in a different province too (even if they live down the street from you, the original ticketholder). StubHub never even touches the tickets, they just act as the middleman.
Also, they advertise a lot with the different sports leagues, so the leagues probably don't worry about going after the scalpers, and the police aren't going to do anything unless someone complains (StubHub might even give a certain percentage of the sales for each league back to the league in advertising). I first heard about the site through an ad on the the San Diego Chargers website last year when I was planning a trip to San Diego and looking for tickets.
I sold some Flames tickets last season on the site. It was very easy.
You sign up for an account and post any tickets you want to sell. You can either set a fixed price, sell them as an auction with a minimum price, or sell with a declining price (set the start date of the sale, the end date of the sale, your minimum end price and a starting "high" price).
For example, if you put the tickets on sale for 10 days with a high price of $100 and a low price of $50, they will post the price as $100 on the first day, $95 on the second, and so on.
Once the tickets sell, they send you an email and tell you what price they sold for and send you a link to print out a FedEx label. You print out the label and the buyer's receipt, stick the tickets and receipt into a FedEx envelope, put the label into the address slot of the envelope, and drop it into a FedEx drop box (at every Kinkos and Staples).
You'll have a FedEx tracking number that you and the buyer can use to track the delivery. Once the package is delivered, you have to wait about a week for the payment to clear, but you'll soon receive your money (I think you need a PayPal account to receive the money).
I sold tickets for 4 games last season and didn't have a problem with any of them. I don't know what their conflict resolution process is because I never needed to use it. You never have any contact with the buyer, you deal directly with StubHub, as does the buyer. The only way you even know the buyer's name is because it's on the shipping label. The return address on the label is StubHub's address, so the buyer never even knows your name.
I found the declining price option was the best way to sell them. I had tickets for both the Habs game and the Bruins game last year, set a crazy high starting price and a more reasonable end price, and they both sold within a couple of days, when they were still in the insanely high category. StubHub does take a cut of the final selling price (it costs you nothing if they don't sell), so set your minimum price accordingly (their prices are in US$, so I usually set my minimum around the Canadian price of the tickets so the exchange rate would pay for the fees). I sold a pair to a Canucks game using the auction, but they ended up selling for the starting price, there didn't seem to be enough interest for a bidding war to start.
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It really didn't seem like we had a lot of choice, though.
