Saturday 17 December 2011

Previously used tickets scam

Especially for high demand events Euroteam tickets and other advanced tickets are bar coded and individually numbered. The ticketing agency at the entrance to the site uses  the scanner to verify and allows entry by electronic tickets.

Scandal is the fact that these tickets are not marked or torn and it usually is returned to the client. Now if  the customer dismisses ticket, it appears to the naked eye as a valid ticket, even if the computer knows that the tickets have already been used.

Thus, an insider (like an Security Guard) position, grabs  discarded tickets and goes out. Seemingly out of the ticket an unsuspecting fan feels its  a bargain. With ticket prices these days,scammer can make a couple hundred dollars very quickly. Tickets are scanned at the gate and the computer rejects them, as they have been used. Another possibility is that the legal ticket holder enters the venue and keeps the ticket as usual. Ticket holder then leaves event venue early, Offers the ticket as simmingly low price. As the event has started, Scanner dismisses the previously used ticket, the ticket holder is long gone and the buyer loses their money.

10 comments:

  1. I totally agree & wish I had visit this site before purchasing tickets from other fake ticket seller. I bought tickets 3 years ago for Paolo Nutini in Amsterdams Paradiso ...still no tickets after many empty promises & excuses. They can't be trusted!

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  2. thank you... so much for this post...!!!!

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  3. Fortunately this hasn't happen to me but I feel people should speak to the media - They may not be capable of get you a money back but at least it would lift alertness that this kind of scammers and scam artist organization is obviously a group of crooks!! It may also give confidence to other people who have been victim.

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  4. this scam happened with one of ma friend...

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  5. i'm agree with Betty... that is the best way to teach lesson to scam artist...

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  6. i always buy tickets from euroteam so there no chance of scam...the office staff of euroteam is very helpful.

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  7. Yeah!! Betty u are right.. media can stop this kind of scam...

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  8. used tickets scam..!!!! i never knw tht...!!

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  9. thank u for the nice read..

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  10. thanks for the post..!! i'll never go for other online source or Scalpers.

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