Ticket scammers get arrested
 

Just saw this story on King-5 news. Kind of a good news story you don't see very often.

A mom was looking for tickets for her 8 year old daughter to see Taylor Swift. She looked on Craiglist and found 4 tickets for $75 each. She met with the seller in a parking lot and exchanged cash for tickets.

After the sale, her mom didn't feel right about something. So she stopped at a ticketmaster outlet to check the tickets. They were fake.

So the mom came up with a plan. She asked someone else to get in touch with the same seller to pretend they wanted to buy more tickets. Only this time, when the seller showed up in a parking lot, they cops were waiting them.

The cops found a bunch of other fake tickets in the seller's car. The seller was charged with forgery and theft.

Kind of nice to hear that.

Its nice to hear stories like these.
I got scammed once when i bought canucks tickets of craigslist.. lol.

That must have sucked!

This is another reason why I stick with RS.

At the very least, we have a feedback section where you can more or less get a pretty accurate background of a seller. You can see who gave them feedback and their join dates and find more validity in that.

Whenever I buy tickets, I meet up at Ticketmaster for verification purposes.

Good idea. I've never done this, but luckily all my sellers have been legit. I've bought concert tickets and hockey tickets for the past 5 years. Gonna start doing this now.

Damn... I thought this thread was gonna talk about the scammers known as Ticketmaster.

good stuff

It does stop you from getting scammed from outright fakes but they could be legit tickets and then as soon as you leave the seller calls in saying he lost his tickets. They email him a new copy and your tickets no longer work. If you're meeting up right before the game it wouldn't be an issue.

I've never had a problem but you never know. I love it when I meet at the sellers house and he's watching me check out the tickets and gives me the assurance of "don't worry they are real" and I look at him and reply "don't worry I know where you live". The reaction on their face is always priceless. But of course a seller selling fake ticekts would never meet you at his crib i guess.

Hmm, I wonder how good the fake tickets look... I've never given it much thought.

fuck scammers

Does Ticketmaster really verify ticket authenticity for you? I thought they have a policy on their website stating they don't do this.

I just bought Kevin Smith tickets off Craigslist a couple weeks ago. Hopefully it works out ok, I asked for the seller's drivers license to confirm their identity, and I also know where the seller works.

he got what he deserves

haha so true.

This was a pretty clever plan. Good job for the mom.

dealing within the revscene community has always resulted in smooth transactions.

feedback implementation was a brilliant idea. if i put something for sale on CL and RS simultaneously, I always sell to fellow members before CL.

got what's coming to them...i<3taylorswift

haha

Not really. Considering the degree of the crime, it's probably just a slap on the wrist.

He'll be back scamming others in no time.

never mess with mama! :showbutt: