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PJ Ticket Scam

dharmabumdharmabum Posts: 5
edited October 2009 in The Porch
I know that most of you get your tix through Ten Club but I just wanted to share my recent experiences in the hope it will prevent someone else from being scammed. My wife and I went to LA 3 thinking we could score a couple of last minute tickets. We had been to LA 1 and tickets seemed rather plentiful. LA 3, however, was a different story. Lots of scalpers and very few tix. We ended up waiting in the ticket line only to be three people away from the last ticket dropped at the box office. Bummer. Anyway, I decided that I would buy some tix off Craigslist the following morning for LA 4 and surprise my wife with them. I made sure that they were hard tix (they were even stuck together at the perf) and the guy I bought them from seemed like a genuine fan. We got to the show and when the tickets got scanned, they made a weird noise. We were told there was a problem with the tix and to go back to the box office. Guy at the box office asked if we were the original purchasers of the tix. We said no. He said that the tix were reported lost and that new tix had been issued to the original buyer making these ones void. In fact, the buyer just picked up his re-issued tickets half an hour ago. Needless to say, my wife and I felt sick. I have been sold fake tickets once (many years ago for a Jerry Garcia Band Halloween show) and have had friends scammed with duplicate Ticketfast tix that were apparently printed more then once. But I have never had actual legitimate Ticketmaster hard tickets turn out to be bogus. The guy at the box office said that this was unfortunately becoming a common practice. Please be careful when buying tix that are not Ten Club. For peace of mind, you can call TM and ask them to check the number under the bar code of the ticket to make sure that the ticket was not re-issued or reported lost or stolen. Hope this helps prevent what happened to us from happening to one of you...
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  • Brain Of JeremyBrain Of Jeremy Posts: 135
    edited October 2009
    That sucks, very sorry to hear that, but thanks for sharing your story for others

    Pretty considerate of you to do so.
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  • theboxerorthebagtheboxerorthebag Posts: 1,774
    there was an issue at Seattle II where a couple had bought tickets on Stubhub that either didn't exist or were in the handicapped section. The looks on their faces was awful, I felt so bad for them but a least the venue found a space for them.
  • Get_RightGet_Right Posts: 13,566
    old trick
    but you take your chances any time you buy from anyone other than the 10C, TM LN etc.

    sorry, that sucks
  • evillasenor3232evillasenor3232 Posts: 1
    That sucks
    Speaking as a child of the 90's
  • hollow bottlehollow bottle Posts: 183
    Thanks for the info.
    TDR
  • ManUnitedManUnited Jersey Shore Posts: 160
    Did you file a police report? Perhaps with the posting info a phone number or other info you have they can track down the a-hole.
    "Whoever, when he dies, leaves on paper a beautiful line of poetry has left the heavens richer and the earth too.”
    F. PESSOA
  • Snoopy Died For Our SinsSnoopy Died For Our Sins Posts: 2,608
    ticketmaster can absolutely track down the offender...you should call them and ask them to do so...
    "No way to save someone who won't take the rope,and just lets go..."
  • Hammartime33Hammartime33 Posts: 207
    RL259436 wrote:
    I know that most of you get your tix through Ten Club but I just wanted to share my recent experiences in the hope it will prevent someone else from being scammed. My wife and I went to LA 3 thinking we could score a couple of last minute tickets. We had been to LA 1 and tickets seemed rather plentiful. LA 3, however, was a different story. Lots of scalpers and very few tix. We ended up waiting in the ticket line only to be three people away from the last ticket dropped at the box office. Bummer. Anyway, I decided that I would buy some tix off Craigslist the following morning for LA 4 and surprise my wife with them. I made sure that they were hard tix (they were even stuck together at the perf) and the guy I bought them from seemed like a genuine fan. We got to the show and when the tickets got scanned, they made a weird noise. We were told there was a problem with the tix and to go back to the box office. Guy at the box office asked if we were the original purchasers of the tix. We said no. He said that the tix were reported lost and that new tix had been issued to the original buyer making these ones void. In fact, the buyer just picked up his re-issued tickets half an hour ago. Needless to say, my wife and I felt sick. I have been sold fake tickets once (many years ago for a Jerry Garcia Band Halloween show) and have had friends scammed with duplicate Ticketfast tix that were apparently printed more then once. But I have never had actual legitimate Ticketmaster hard tickets turn out to be bogus. The guy at the box office said that this was unfortunately becoming a common practice. Please be careful when buying tix that are not Ten Club. For peace of mind, you can call TM and ask them to check the number under the bar code of the ticket to make sure that the ticket was not re-issued or reported lost or stolen. Hope this helps prevent what happened to us from happening to one of you...

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  • whispering handswhispering hands Under your skin Posts: 13,527
    that happened to a friend of mine once it was going to be her first time seeing PJ too. Luckily for her I buy my TC tix in pairs so I can always go with someone. As a matter of fact the only time I've seen them by my self was Bonnaroo last year. But hey sometimes fans really do sell you valid tix. I one time was given tix, ( me and a little girl who was in tears over not getting to go), the guy's GF was sick and MADE him give away her tix to true fans. I have yet to be able to repay that karma. I always look for opportunities to give a way a ticket to a fan who truely needs to go. One day..... I'll get to. Though I'll never foget that couple that gave me my ticket in my desperate need to see my favorite band live, I will someday when things look up be able to give someone that chnace to go when they need to most. And I promise when that day comes I'll post it here.
  • helplessdancerhelplessdancer Posts: 5,281
    theboxerorthebag wrote:
    there was an issue at Seattle II where a couple had bought tickets on Stubhub that either didn't exist or were in the handicapped section. The looks on their faces was awful, I felt so bad for them but a least the venue found a space for them.

    stubhub/ticketsnow, as much as I HATE THEM. they will protect you if you buy from them. totally legit scalpers and they guarantee your service to the point of giving you a 1.800#.... if something should happen at entry time, like what happened to the OP

    Craigslist wont protect you

    FYI
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