FC Screwing over a Kobe Fan on StubHub
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Honor in business, politics, sports and entertainment, just about anywhere that money is involved, is a fading virtue. Greed is an epidemic and I see few who are working toward a cure.
Ended up getting 4 free tickets to the same game in the same section by a competitor after stubhub and the seller on stubhub shafted him. Pretty sweet deal.
When you list tickets on Stubhub, you are required to give them a credit card number to charge in case you can't fulfill any purchase. In this case, why didn't they charge the person listing the tickets (and reneging) the $6000 or whatever it would cost to replace the tickets for the buyer. Either way, based on how the website is supposed to work, they should be providing 4 comparable tickets to the buyer at the cost he agreed to and Stubhub is responsible for any difference in the cost themselves (or they can pursue it from the seller as noted)
Granted, there's a happy ending for the buyer, but it doesn't change how their actions were not proper.
Granted, there's a happy ending for the buyer, but it doesn't change how their actions were not proper.
It just seems to me there's more to this story.
That or someone at StubHub is ripping off the company.
That or someone at StubHub is ripping off the company.
Someone running a rival ticket broker service supposedly bought 4 tickets for the guy and said he'd deliver them himself. Probably cost the company next to nothing but generated tons of goodwill PR (at least according to those responding in the comments).
StubHub really sounds like a racket.
One time I thought I bought season tickets on stubhub. After the transaction they called me and told me the guy listed the tickets at the wrong price so I told them about their policy. They said it would cost them too much and couldn't honor the policy. I asked them for a free pair of tickets to an event of my choice and they countered with half off my next purchase. A month or so when I went to purchase tickets they didn't honor it and told me there was no record of this. I haven't looked at them since.
I've had nothing but great experiences with stubhub, but this will make me think twice before ordering again.
That's exactly what Stubhub did for me when a guy backed out of an Opening Day ticket. I got a seat in the same section that actually was a little better (down lower) fo theprice I paid. The original seller was charged the difference. Note that Reds Opening Day is a tough ticket--in my case not $1000s but over a hundred for an outfield seat.
I wonder why that didn't happen in this case.... There may be more to the story.
Well, Stubhub said it would cost them too much if they implemented their "guarantee" in this case. Their guarantee that is plastered all over their page obviously isn't worth much. It's especially crappy that the seller can sell the tickets, then hold onto them for weeks to see if the price goes up on them, and then they can just sell them for higher and screw the first buyer.
As someone who has used StubHub quite a bit to buy and sell tickets, I have a question. I'm guessing that the tickets in question were electronic tickets. What if they were hard tickets and shipped via UPS?
I've sold tickets that way. If the buyer would of bought hard tickets they should of arrived to him via UPS in a few days. By then, the tickets would be in his possession and StubHub would no longer be involved.
I guess the buyer still could of got screwed by the seller then if the seller went into his season ticket account and transferred those final season game to electronic format.
I've sold tickets that way. If the buyer would of bought hard tickets they should of arrived to him via UPS in a few days. By then, the tickets would be in his possession and StubHub would no longer be involved.
I guess the buyer still could of got screwed by the seller then if the seller went into his season ticket account and transferred those final season game to electronic format.
Either earlier in this thread or in one of the articles i read about this, it was said the lakers don't make the hard tickets available until 4 days before the game. Supposedly this is done to reduce scalping. I have no idea if this is accurate or not.
