Craigslist - Fake Ticket Scams

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Eddie Vedder Fake Ticket Scams - $1 (info and phone numbers of scammers)
Date: 2011-06-14, 5:22PM EDT
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I have already saved 14 people from buying fake tickets. There are a lot of them out there. A lot of these tickets are Loge Row E and Lower and Upper Balcony Row E.
Watch out for Austin Green (Skinny black guy), Also Gregory / Gregorey Petterson, Emory Torres, Now Mark and Nick. Names will change! Phone numbers probably won't change are 347-744-6893 or 1508 818 4158 or 781-654-5109. A new number is 347-362-8534!
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Someone should post this up on Ten club as well.
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If you have been robbed by these low lives call the police. A few of you have written me asking. Just go to the police. I know it takes time, but people are getting screwed and you can help!
How do I tell if tickets are fakes?
• Best is the scratch test. TM tickets aren't printed with normal inks. The black that you see is actually burned (made by heat), not printed by the machine. Take your thumb fingernail and flick the ticket fast with force 2 or 3 times at corner. On a Real ticket, black scratch will appear. Fake ones will just look like white scratches, No Black.
• Do a name search or email search on facebook. A picture comes up, you might be good. No trace, not a good sign!
• Look closely at the recent ticket fonts. The forgers almost never get the font right, but they get close.
• Printer dots make different patterns too, usually you can see it on a fake.
• Recent TM tickets in NYC have a neon orange that's hard to print.
• How does a real ticket feel? Touch a few of your saved stubs from past shows. Fakes almost never get the same coating as a real ticket. This is a hard one though. The recent fakes I saw for Eddie Vedder were pretty close.
Be safe and careful out there! Always buy Hard copy tickets (not printout ticketfast) and make sure that the person you are buying from is the original buyer from TM or band presale!
Let's stick together and weed these scumbags out.
Eddie Vedder Fake Ticket Scams - $1 (info and phone numbers of scammers)
Date: 2011-06-14, 5:22PM EDT
Reply to: <!-- e --><a href="mailto:sale-shscx-2440666505@craigslist.org">sale-shscx-2440666505@craigslist.org</a><!-- e --> [Errors when replying to ads?]
I have already saved 14 people from buying fake tickets. There are a lot of them out there. A lot of these tickets are Loge Row E and Lower and Upper Balcony Row E.
Watch out for Austin Green (Skinny black guy), Also Gregory / Gregorey Petterson, Emory Torres, Now Mark and Nick. Names will change! Phone numbers probably won't change are 347-744-6893 or 1508 818 4158 or 781-654-5109. A new number is 347-362-8534!
.
Someone should post this up on Ten club as well.
.
If you have been robbed by these low lives call the police. A few of you have written me asking. Just go to the police. I know it takes time, but people are getting screwed and you can help!
How do I tell if tickets are fakes?
• Best is the scratch test. TM tickets aren't printed with normal inks. The black that you see is actually burned (made by heat), not printed by the machine. Take your thumb fingernail and flick the ticket fast with force 2 or 3 times at corner. On a Real ticket, black scratch will appear. Fake ones will just look like white scratches, No Black.
• Do a name search or email search on facebook. A picture comes up, you might be good. No trace, not a good sign!
• Look closely at the recent ticket fonts. The forgers almost never get the font right, but they get close.
• Printer dots make different patterns too, usually you can see it on a fake.
• Recent TM tickets in NYC have a neon orange that's hard to print.
• How does a real ticket feel? Touch a few of your saved stubs from past shows. Fakes almost never get the same coating as a real ticket. This is a hard one though. The recent fakes I saw for Eddie Vedder were pretty close.
Be safe and careful out there! Always buy Hard copy tickets (not printout ticketfast) and make sure that the person you are buying from is the original buyer from TM or band presale!
Let's stick together and weed these scumbags out.
"i'm a dedicated insomniac" ~ ev nyc beacon 6/22
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He claimed to have 4 for the EV Philly show in Orch Row AA - which is 1st row (behind the pit). I started asking him questions...figuring it had to be BS and he wanted payment via western union. I flagged his ad. Turns out he was offering tix all over craigslist in different cities for different shows.
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Good luck. How can people live with themselves? Bunch of scumbags out there.
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Key Arena - Seattle, WA - Sep 21, 2009
Pacific Coliseum - Vancouver, BC - Sep 25, 2011
Key Arena - Seattle, WA - Dec 6, 2013
Eddie Vedder Solo:
Benaroya Hall - Seattle, WA - Jul 15, 2011
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Not everyone feels the need to put pictures and information out on the internet for all to see. So just because you can't find a facebook page doesn't mean they are a scalper. They might not have a page, or they might have it locked down for only friends to see.
This same guy was going to sell me tix also! I did the same thing, Googled him and found someone I thought could be him. I have an email from him if it will help you with the police. I deliberately mentioned scams in my email reply to him and I think it freaked him out so he didn't get back to me after promising the tickets; I then called several times and the number was "out of service." These guys are such huge scumbags and it's really unfortunate. I also am totally bummed out about the "fans" who are charging substantially more than face. Just not good concert karma!
I hope they catch them...
Saddened but holding out a shred of hope for a ticket!
This Universal angle with the LA twist sounds familiar, this may have happened on PJ tour last year. There was a long thread about someone who got scammed, not sure if that was the one though.
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