Being harrassed over tickets

rannerap wrote: »

About 6 months ago I sold some tickets to a concert to someone via an online site. I bought them via ticketmaster. Apparently the concert was cancelled as they have been sending me threatening messages that I am to meet them in town with money that I owe them since it's cancelled or they will call the guards or show up at my work. The site I sold it through basically said it's a legal grey area. That I don't have to give them anything. Surely once tickets are sold that's it? I don't think Ticketmaster have refunded me yet, but the same happened to me once and I just accepted I had lost the money on them.

Em, when ticket master refund you, you should refund him.

Legal grey area it may be.

If you were to walk away from this with twice the cash then and the buyer completely out of pocket then I would absolutely understand this person's anger.

I assume ticket master have said they will be refunding as per usual practice?

rannerap wrote: »

About 6 months ago I sold some tickets to a concert to someone via an online site. I bought them via ticketmaster. Apparently the concert was cancelled as they have been sending me threatening messages that I am to meet them in town with money that I owe them since it's cancelled or they will call the guards or show up at my work. The site I sold it through basically said it's a legal grey area. That I don't have to give them anything. Surely once tickets are sold that's it? I don't think Ticketmaster have refunded me yet, but the same happened to me once and I just accepted I had lost the money on them.

Surely, if and when Ticketmaster does refund you, it'd be reasonable to forward the refund to whomever bought the tickets off you? Until such time, however, I can't see any reason to entertain their claim.

You said " I don't think ticketmaster refunded me yet" . Surely the first thing to do is check that first on your statements....before posting on boards.
I bought tickets few years ago from Ticketmaster outlet, I simply went back to same outlet and got refund straight away. Was very simple.
I'm no legal expert but I imagine the law is on buyers side.

How is the OP a mod? :L is this post a troll or what?

Wow, really? People really can be jerks! Just give them back their money, and quit messing them around.

You'll be refunded,give them the money back

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I think OP hasn't responded because he did not get the response he was looking for.

If an event is cancelled, you get refunded. Check your bank account. If you didn't get refunded, it shouldn't be hard to get that sorted.

If you have charged over the odds for the ticket, then it's a double whammy of scum-baggish behaviour from you. Your post has left yourself open for people to think this could be the case.

Just refund the person, you really are in the wrong here.

Sounds awfully like a legal grey area indeed.

A resale ticket is not like an original ticket in that you've sold two items, 1. the ticket and 2. the service of having bought the ticket (potentially joining a queue, being ready by the computer at 7am and refreshing etc.), plus fronting the money for the ticket for a long time.

So in the concert being cancelled, this doesn't negate the service component the OP provided. I would feel that a fair valuation on this is what should/could be retained but that would require some precedence to establish.

I'd say that the amount refunded to the OP should in turn be refunded and then a fair withholding of any surplus charge could be help to cover the admin component of the service. Again highly difficult to quantify but unlikely to be more than €10.

(this is not of course what i'd do myself I imagine - I think I'd refund the amount ticketmaster refund me plus the delta between the resale and sale price - but then this isn't the humanities forum so that's not really relevant)