Stubhub question.

SPEEDY MCCREADY
SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 27,210
edited September 2013 in All Encompassing Trip
Am I better off, or safer, buying an instant download ticket rather than a hard ticket?
The hard ticket can be a fake, right?
Is it possible for the instant download to be a fake?

Never used stubhub before.
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  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    I've used it a few times, maybe a dozen, always did the download and never had a problem.
  • The Waiting Trophy Man
    The Waiting Trophy Man Niagara region, Ontario, Canada Posts: 12,158
    Not sure if the download can be fake or not? I suppose the person selling the tickets could print off x amount of tickets for the same seats and sell them to different people.

    But Stub Hub guarantees the tickets. if you have any problems, theres a number you call and Stub Hub deals with it immediately.

    We just used our printed download tickets for the Giants/Broncos game on Sunday and it was fine.

    The problem with the hard tickets, for us, was they would've had to have been sent to our hotel only a day or 2 before the game and we didn't want to chance it.
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  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 27,210
    BinauralJam wrote:
    I've used it a few times, maybe a dozen, always did the download and never had a problem.
    The instant download ticket will be right off the ticketmaster sight, right? Only able to download once?
    Or can you actually print 2,374 of the same ticket? :lol::lol:
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  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,932
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    BinauralJam wrote:
    I've used it a few times, maybe a dozen, always did the download and never had a problem.
    The instant download ticket will be right off the ticketmaster sight, right? Only able to download once?
    Or can you actually print 2,374 of the same ticket? :lol::lol:


    Yep. I have done print-outs and hard tickets with stubhub and never had any issues.
  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    BinauralJam wrote:
    I've used it a few times, maybe a dozen, always did the download and never had a problem.
    The instant download ticket will be right off the ticketmaster sight, right? Only able to download once?
    Or can you actually print 2,374 of the same ticket? :lol::lol:


    That's a good question, i'll see if can i find some old e-mails...i just always took it on good faith. But i guess it could be photocopyed.
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 32,026
    I have done both ways many times and never had an issue. I had one time where I bought (2) Kings playoff tickets and they sent me (4.) These were hard copy tickets, the fancy playoff ones.
    I called them and told them they sent (4) instead of (2) and they told me which seats were mine and to toss the other ones. I asked them what would stop me from giving the other 2 to my buddy and they said -- the bar code wont work, we caught our mistake and de-activated that bar code.
    I obviously wasnt going to do that (I called them to let them know) but this was extremely interesting to learn. They are bar code based....which I guess makes perfect sense being that they scan them. The arena must get a master list of codes that work and that is not a static list but rather one that gets updated periodically.
    The shitty thing was that if I sold them to someone outside the arena they would have no way of knowing they would not work. I threw them out and thought what a strange world the secondary ticket market was.

    On your question about the print outs -- when they give you the automatic dl ones you can print them as many times as you want. (They all have the same bar code, the first person to scan those bar codes at the gate will be allowed entry.)

    I have never had to call StubHub from the gate and work things out (out of maybe 60-70 times used) but I always bring the sheet with the info on the purchase with me just in case I do. They guarantee their tickets.
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  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,075
    I wouldn't worry about it too much and go for whatever seats and/or price you want. Both ways can be faked. Instant download is probably the safest as it is typically right off of ticketmaster, but StubHub is pretty reliable. People get fucked pretty hard for selling duplicates and they will be charged a bunch of fees/fines and not allowed to sell tickets again, so it's not really worth it.
  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 27,210
    BinauralJam wrote:
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    BinauralJam wrote:
    I've used it a few times, maybe a dozen, always did the download and never had a problem.
    The instant download ticket will be right off the ticketmaster sight, right? Only able to download once?
    Or can you actually print 2,374 of the same ticket? :lol::lol:


    That's a good question, i'll see if can i find some old e-mails...i just always took it on good faith. But i guess it could be photocopyed.
    If I get to New York and have a fake ticket in my hands...
    Im going to lose my freaking mind!!!!
    :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:
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  • Indifference71
    Indifference71 Chicago Posts: 14,932
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    I wouldn't worry about it too much and go for whatever seats and/or price you want. Both ways can be faked. Instant download is probably the safest as it is typically right off of ticketmaster, but StubHub is pretty reliable. People get fucked pretty hard for selling duplicates and they will be charged a bunch of fees/fines and not allowed to sell tickets again, so it's not really worth it.


    Once you get past the whole scalping thing, Stubhub is an awesome site. Bought 4 Bears tickets to the game in Pittsburgh this Sunday for row B. Get the tickets in the the mail and they are row V. I called stubhub and let them know what was going on and they told me they would take care of it with no cost for us. So they ended up getting us 4 tickets in row A in a much better section. Original seats were at about the 20 yard line and now we're right at midfield in the front row. Worked out well for us...
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 32,026
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    If I get to New York and have a fake ticket in my hands...
    Im going to lose my freaking mind!!!!
    :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:


    I flew to Vancouver a few years ago to see a show and obsessed about it even though I had never had an issue. No problems, enjoyed the show.
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  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 27,210
    F Me In The Brain wrote:
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    If I get to New York and have a fake ticket in my hands...
    Im going to lose my freaking mind!!!!
    :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:


    I flew to Vancouver a few years ago to see a show and obsessed about it even though I had never had an issue. No problems, enjoyed the show.
    Well, I have tickets for myself and a friend. They are both singles in different sections. So what I want to do is get another ticket in at least the same section as the other, so the 2 of us can at least sit in the same section. Right now we are sitting about 3 miles apart. :lol::lol::lol:

    I will probably purchase the ticket I am looking at off stubhub, yet keep the other ticket in my pocket, when I enter Barclay's, just in case the stubhub ticket is a fake. :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

    So if the ticket isn't a fake? Then I will have an extra that will be going to waste... :lol::lol::lol:
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  • BinauralJam
    BinauralJam Posts: 14,158
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    If I get to New York and have a fake ticket in my hands...
    Im going to lose my freaking mind!!!!
    :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:


    If anything you can always catch a play, Cinderella's fun :lol::lol:
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,075
    Indifference71 wrote:
    Cliffy6745 wrote:
    I wouldn't worry about it too much and go for whatever seats and/or price you want. Both ways can be faked. Instant download is probably the safest as it is typically right off of ticketmaster, but StubHub is pretty reliable. People get fucked pretty hard for selling duplicates and they will be charged a bunch of fees/fines and not allowed to sell tickets again, so it's not really worth it.


    Once you get past the whole scalping thing, Stubhub is an awesome site. Bought 4 Bears tickets to the game in Pittsburgh this Sunday for row B. Get the tickets in the the mail and they are row V. I called stubhub and let them know what was going on and they told me they would take care of it with no cost for us. So they ended up getting us 4 tickets in row A in a much better section. Original seats were at about the 20 yard line and now we're right at midfield in the front row. Worked out well for us...

    Yeah, it is a pretty phenomenal service and they really guard against fraud. That's really good stuff.
  • gimmesometruth27
    gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 25,076
    i have used stubhub for blues playoff tickets a few times. i picked up hard copies at the stubhub office right near savvis center without any issues. never done the instant download though...
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  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,075
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    F Me In The Brain wrote:
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    If I get to New York and have a fake ticket in my hands...
    Im going to lose my freaking mind!!!!
    :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:


    I flew to Vancouver a few years ago to see a show and obsessed about it even though I had never had an issue. No problems, enjoyed the show.
    Well, I have tickets for myself and a friend. They are both singles in different sections. So what I want to do is get another ticket in at least the same section as the other, so the 2 of us can at least sit in the same section. Right now we are sitting about 3 miles apart. :lol::lol::lol:

    I will probably purchase the ticket I am looking at off stubhub, yet keep the other ticket in my pocket, when I enter Barclay's, just in case the stubhub ticket is a fake. :lol::lol::lol::lol::lol:

    So if the ticket isn't a fake? Then I will have an extra that will be going to waste... :lol::lol::lol:

    Don't bother. The ticket isn't going to be fake and in the very very very slim chance that it is, they will get you tickets immediately. Don't waste your money.
  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 27,020
    Get the e-tix because they are $6 cheaper :D

    I have used the hub over 20 times and never had any problem
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  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 27,210
    SVRDhand13 wrote:
    Get the e-tix because they are $6 cheaper :D

    I have used the hub over 20 times and never had any problem
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  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    BinauralJam wrote:
    I've used it a few times, maybe a dozen, always did the download and never had a problem.
    The instant download ticket will be right off the ticketmaster sight, right? Only able to download once?
    Or can you actually print 2,374 of the same ticket? :lol::lol:

    You can print off as many copies as you want.

    Stubhub guarantees their tickets, though. If someone was to do that, I'd guess the seller would be in a fun lawsuit.
  • peacefrompaul
    peacefrompaul Posts: 25,293
    BinauralJam wrote:
    SPEEDY MCCREADY wrote:
    BinauralJam wrote:
    I've used it a few times, maybe a dozen, always did the download and never had a problem.
    The instant download ticket will be right off the ticketmaster sight, right? Only able to download once?
    Or can you actually print 2,374 of the same ticket? :lol::lol:


    That's a good question, i'll see if can i find some old e-mails...i just always took it on good faith. But i guess it could be photocopyed.

    They don't allow photocopies... it has to be the exact download link that you originally got the ticket from.
  • grooveme
    grooveme Posts: 353
    I have used Stub hub to get hard tickets and downloads and never had an issue. They are a pretty reputable service.

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