Do tell on the “be careful”?
Serious question, I went ticket hunting a few months ago and thought about CraigsList but ultimately them not having the guarantees of StubHub, I decided it was too much of a risk. What’s your safeguards?
Edit: From the looks of things, some CraigsList sellers are selling a fair bit lower than the prices I’m seeing on Ace/Vivid/StubHub/Seatgeek.
Oh yeah, the prices will be drastically different. You kind of just have to commit to playing the game for a few days that week. Refreshing CL, contacting a lot of people
I always try for a personal meetup- this may sound obvious, but I’ll never send money first without having already received the tickets through Ticketmaster transfer. Would rather meet up and either have them do the Ticketmaster transfer there while I hand them cash or have them give me the hard tickets
Ask for some type of proof (like proof that they’re season ticket holders)- last guy I bought from showed me his booklet that his season tix came in. Maybe a picture from their seat, or just some other proof of their season ticket account
If they try to do the transfer through another method, I call the company. Last year had someone try to get me to do a transfer through an eBay page that looked good. Called eBay, they informed me that that page didn’t exist on their site.
After the seller commits to selling to you, have another friend contact the seller about the tix. If the seller agrees to sell the tix to both of you, it’s a scam
Try and get a name, talk on the phone, something to just do a general test to see if they seem honest. Scammers will be less likely to meet up/talk
I guess the biggest thing for me is just that any reasonable, honest seller is going to do everything that’s fair to make you comfortable. If they’re insisting that you pay a certain way or don’t need access to certain info that’d make you feel safer, I just move on