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buying/selling/flippin event tickets

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Does anyone here buy and/or sell or flip event tickets, ie concerts, games,..etc for a side hustle, and whats your experience, thought about giving it a try, just wanted to get a few opinions
 
I don't do it regularly, but I did purchase some tickets for Joel Osteen and resold them months later for a lil profit. You gotta make sure you make enough to cover all fees, i.e. Ticketmaster, shipping, etc.
 
TheyCallMeBe said:
I thought it was illegal to sell tickets for anything more than face value?
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That's scalping you're thinking about. You can't do it withing XXX feet of the venue that is holding the event. But selling and shipping online...they can't touch you. BUT, even if u sell it online, still don't accept payment within XXX feet of the venue, cause it'll be the same thing as scalping.
 
cooliojones said:
That's scalping you're thinking about. You can't do it withing XXX feet of the venue that is holding the event. But selling and shipping online...they can't touch you. BUT, even if u sell it online, still don't accept payment within XXX feet of the venue, cause it'll be the same thing as scalping.
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Appreciate the clear up...
 
What CoolioJones said is right. Here's what I used to tell people who asked about scalping: I buy tickets and sell them via my website- I sold memories ;-)

BUT...if my website prices were too high, then I had no choice but to sell them at the venue. THAT'S scalping- and I tried to avoid scalping as much as possible, LOL.
 
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