Update!: Ticketmaster account hacked. My ticket for Philly is gone.

rival9500

Update: Ticketmaster was helpful and agreed to give me a premium ticket for my troubles in section 115 Row 8 seat 3.  It took a long time on the phone to get the approval for this.  I called them as soon as this new row of premiums became available.  They were all listed at $750 each.  Pretty gross these seats didn’t go to ten club but overall I’m satisfied. 

PS.  If anyone wants to trade me for a GA, let me know. 

SHZA

aisleseats said:

on2legs said:

Ticketmaster has openly said it uses an algorithm to determine if people are scalpers based on their ticket buying and selling histories.  Those accounts are supposed to be filtered out with verified fan which would make a hacked account from a regular user very desirable.  

Given how many F2F pairs I've resold over the last 4 years, this may explain why I get shut out of literally every verified fan sale.

I've never gotten a VF code despite registering for many over the years. If you have tickets for a lot of shows, they assume you are a scalper. 

OP, good to hear TM fixed this for you 

gotthebottle

aisleseats said:

on2legs said:

Ticketmaster has openly said it uses an algorithm to determine if people are scalpers based on their ticket buying and selling histories.  Those accounts are supposed to be filtered out with verified fan which would make a hacked account from a regular user very desirable.  

Given how many F2F pairs I've resold over the last 4 years, this may explain why I get shut out of literally every verified fan sale.

Yes, this isn't new. I've bought and  sold hundreds over the years and never get verified. So I don't expect it... it never was for the biggest fans

Kwieneke

rival9500 said:

Update: Ticketmaster was helpful and agreed to give me a premium ticket for my troubles in section 115 Row 8 seat 3.  It took a long time on the phone to get the approval for this.  I called them as soon as this new row of premiums became available.  They were all listed at $750 each.  Pretty gross these seats didn’t go to ten club but overall I’m satisfied. 

PS.  If anyone wants to trade me for a GA, let me know. 

super happy to hear this 

on2legs

gotthebottle said:

aisleseats said:

on2legs said:

Ticketmaster has openly said it uses an algorithm to determine if people are scalpers based on their ticket buying and selling histories.  Those accounts are supposed to be filtered out with verified fan which would make a hacked account from a regular user very desirable.  

Given how many F2F pairs I've resold over the last 4 years, this may explain why I get shut out of literally every verified fan sale.

Yes, this isn't new. I've bought and  sold hundreds over the years and never get verified. So I don't expect it... it never was for the biggest fans

Lol

GlowGirl

gotthebottle said:

aisleseats said:

on2legs said:

Ticketmaster has openly said it uses an algorithm to determine if people are scalpers based on their ticket buying and selling histories.  Those accounts are supposed to be filtered out with verified fan which would make a hacked account from a regular user very desirable.  

Given how many F2F pairs I've resold over the last 4 years, this may explain why I get shut out of literally every verified fan sale.

Yes, this isn't new. I've bought and  sold hundreds over the years and never get verified. So I don't expect it... it never was for the biggest fans

I didn't expect to get verified either because of all the F2F and upgrades I do. I bought and sold quite a few tickets last year while upgrading. I usually never get VF. Somehow, this year I got it for MSG1. I was really surprised. I ended up getting seats - upper deck - but still....

P-Town-P-Jam-Fan

on2legs said:

Ticketmaster has openly said it uses an algorithm to determine if people are scalpers based on their ticket buying and selling histories.  Those accounts are supposed to be filtered out with verified fan which would make a hacked account from a regular user very desirable.  

This is exactly what I was saying earlier in the thread.  This algorithm puts accounts that buy and sell tickets all the time in the back of the line.  Thus the need for ticket scalpers to obtain new accounts with order history that doesn't show a bunch of sold tickets all over the country.  Do a little googling around aged ticketmaster accounts and you will see plenty of shady offerings.

yosi

aisleseats said:

on2legs said:

Ticketmaster has openly said it uses an algorithm to determine if people are scalpers based on their ticket buying and selling histories.  Those accounts are supposed to be filtered out with verified fan which would make a hacked account from a regular user very desirable.  

Given how many F2F pairs I've resold over the last 4 years, this may explain why I get shut out of literally every verified fan sale.

I’m not sure. I’ve been shut out of verified fan long before I sold or transferred tickets…

Zod

on2legs said:

Ticketmaster has openly said it uses an algorithm to determine if people are scalpers based on their ticket buying and selling histories.  Those accounts are supposed to be filtered out with verified fan which would make a hacked account from a regular user very desirable.  

They did do that, but they don't call if verified fan anymore.  They call it something else.  I've wondered if the dropped the algorithm thing when they stopped calling it verified fan.

PJNB

TM loves it when you buy and resell on their platform. I highly doubt they filter out those that flip tickets and resell on their website. 

on2legs

Zod said:

on2legs said:

Ticketmaster has openly said it uses an algorithm to determine if people are scalpers based on their ticket buying and selling histories.  Those accounts are supposed to be filtered out with verified fan which would make a hacked account from a regular user very desirable.  

They did do that, but they don't call if verified fan anymore.  They call it something else.  I've wondered if the dropped the algorithm thing when they stopped calling it verified fan.

They still filter out high volume accounts.