Do you think that selling concert tickets on ebay is unfair and wrong? Taking peoples hard earned money for hiked up tickets? Is it killing the music industry and making tickets more expensive?
Or do you think it's a fair way to make a bit of cash?
2007-01-31 05:47:24 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Internet
As with my other question, this is hypothetical. Was reading about it in the paper
2007-01-31 05:53:57 · update #1
If a show is sold out, the only way left to get tickets is through ebay, and people are willing to bid high amounts to get those tickets, then I don't see anything wrong with it.
I know that if I wanted to see a show badly enough, I would pay top dollar to get in. I would not feel taken advantage of, either. It would be my own fault for not getting my regularly-priced tickets early enough.
2007-01-31 05:57:46 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
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Ebay - is selling concert tickets wrong?
Do you think that selling concert tickets on ebay is unfair and wrong? Taking peoples hard earned money for hiked up tickets? Is it killing the music industry and making tickets more expensive?
Or do you think it's a fair way to make a bit of cash?
2015-08-10 18:46:31 · answer #2 · answered by ? 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If people put things up for sale with a hiked up reserve then that is wrong. I recently sold concert tickets on ebay and published the price I paid for them as I was only looking to recover what I had paid (I ordered them in error while trying to get other tickets) What about the little sods that bought Nintendo Wii's and put them up for sale for hundreds of pounds over the retail price? Not a fair way to make cash but as stated if people are willing to pay for them it's not the sellers fault.
2007-01-31 06:03:00 · answer #3 · answered by S B 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't exactly see it as wrong however I am waiting for law enforcement to act on it as scalping and therefore having restrictions put on it. I do know that here in Missouri you're not supposed to sell a ticket for over face value to anyone else residing in Missouri however they always do. Years ago I paid $600 for four floor seat concert tickets with a face value of maybe $65 on them. Granted it was a great concert I don't foresee myself spending that type of money again for tickets over Ebay. I can't blame Ebay though, you have to blame the people or businesses that acquire these tickets for the sole purpose of making a profit on them. People are going to pay idiotic amounts of money just to be a part of something, in a capitalist world thats how you make the profits, by sticking it to the man.
2007-01-31 05:55:56 · answer #4 · answered by prmaples 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
i bought tickets before xmas on ebay but the seller just wanted the money she had paid for them ,some sellers are honest just looking to sell on and some just in for more money .
dont think its killing music industry as the price had been paid for the ticket but I suppose its desperate fans buying them at high prices.
2007-01-31 05:53:17 · answer #5 · answered by Nutty Girl 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i think crediting third world countries debt just for asking for water is wrong. ebay will get worse when the web becomes independednt of law and the truth is everything will be done by the web in the next ten years thats untill america give there net rights away to china who want a private net to themselves really on the net you can buy anything you just have to look in the very dark places last year i uncovered a group of jipses travelling around france who dug up dead bodies .cleaned them up and used them to scare families out of a district they where secretlt trying to overtake they where smart because they wernt killing anyone they made false tapes of them cutting up victims that didnt play along with the way of life they wanted for the area .that was well kept under wraps by french authority
2016-03-13 05:36:27 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It is only illegal if you are requesting a price above the price you paid originally. How high people are willing to bid is up to them. And if they end up paying two or three times the value of the ticket...that's their problem! Haha.
2007-01-31 05:55:29 · answer #7 · answered by surfchika 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I dont think it is wrong as long as it is a genuine reason for sale i,e cannot go or got duplicate tickets. I think ticket touts should be clamped down on, and I dont think you should be able to sell anything you havent paid for yourself i,e charity tickets.
2007-01-31 05:56:22 · answer #8 · answered by mrssandii1982 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If people are willing to pay for tickets let them. Its the same thing as being a scalper at a baseball game for example.
2007-01-31 05:58:18 · answer #9 · answered by badmitton69 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
individuals selling their spares - no problem
touts buying up job lots of them and flogging them - morally wrong, but almost certainly not illegal.
Difficult to distinguish which is which, though, so to some extent we either have to accept a few Del Boys getting rich or ban the whole thing, which is annoyingly restrictive
2007-01-31 05:53:48 · answer #10 · answered by wild_eep 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋