When Christmas rolls around you see thousands of ads of merchandise being sold sometimes 10x the actual market price and there are never criminal prosecutions of those transaction but Sporting and Entertainment tickets are place into a special category and considered criminal if you try and sell above their face value in many States. Many believe its to protect the state and local tax revenue but when doesn't paying your local or state taxes become criminal? they place liens on homeowners or garnish future returns, wages but they do not arrest you or many business owners, politicians would be in jail.
2007-03-25 03:39:35 · 11 answers · asked by uluvtwan 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Law & Ethics
Why is ticket scalping a criminal offense Verse a civil offense? when no crime exist because supply and demand is part of business practice for centuries. The Civil entity exist because you are not license to resell "their" product under different conditions therefore it should be civil and not criminal. Every Christmas when Sony or Microsoft puts out another console game, supply and demand flood the market increasing the value of those items x10 on occasions. Sporting and Entertainment events are no different. Its does not hurt the fans because they are buying it, it does not hurt the vendor because they have already made their money on the initial ticket purchase, it does hurt the local tax base but so does all supply and demand transactions that any given sunday you can find in the want ad sections of your local newspaper so again why is ticket scalping a criminal and not civil offense?
2007-03-28 01:44:55 · update #1
On tickets because there is a limited amount, on Christmas goods, there is no limit, you can buy and sell, so can I.
But on tickets, if one company went in and bought every ticket available, Then they could control and limit who and how much you had to pay.
also many of the laws may merely restict the distance from the event, you do not see people in Walmart parking lot selling items from thier trunks.
So it is a protection not only for the customer, but for the maket system of the event
2007-03-25 03:44:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
It has to do with who owns the performance whether sports or arts and who is an authorized reseller. The performers have the right to determine the ticket sales price and grant permissions to resellers of those tickets.
What you're dealing with is who owns what you're selling. In the case of tickets, these are owned by the people who own the performance, and they have the right to determine the ticket price. Other items, such as a toy or sports memorabilia are property and are therefore owned by the purchaser.
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2016-04-27 15:02:46 · answer #3 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Buying large quantities of tickets, for which there is a limited supply, in an intentional effort to obstruct someone else from getting them at a fair price is a form of coercion.
How would you feel if someone stood outside the post office every day, and purchased all of the stamps, as soon as they came in, and then charged everyone triple for them?
2007-03-25 04:18:41 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
I don't get it either. I've had friends pay double the amount to see a game and bought them on e-bay. Makes zero sense. One's a crime and one is a business? Doesn't sound right to me.
Lots of events have a maximum number you're allowed to buy at a time. So having one company by them all is near impossible.
2007-03-25 03:46:18 · answer #5 · answered by apple juice 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I wonder that as well..maybe because scalpers would buy up huge amounts of tickets in-advance and sell them at high prices causing some poor slob to either not go or pay through the nose..
2007-03-25 03:50:35 · answer #6 · answered by xjim7 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree, it doesn't really make sense that ticket scalping is illegal. It's just like any other process of buying and reselling, people do it all the time with commodities. So yeah I'll have to agree with you on this one.
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2015-10-14 09:05:17 · answer #8 · answered by Gaye 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because they don't want people buying all the tickets and selling them on the street the night of the show to make money that they could possibly have made if they charged more. the corporations think it is money they don't get a percentage of so they don't want to allow it.
2007-03-25 03:43:19 · answer #9 · answered by WyoWonder 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I don't know but I've got two tickets to the Bill Gaither Trio next month in Omaha if you're interested.
2007-03-25 03:43:13 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋