Tips for Ticket Buyers and Sellers this Saturday
Are you planning on heading down to Piedmont Park this Saturday looking for Dave Matthews Band and Allman Brothers Band tickets? Do you still have extra tickets you need to sell?
Here are a few tips to hopefully make this a worthwhile experience.
1. Buying tickets? There will be lots of counterfit tickets on the market and unfortunately the city of Atlanta does little to stop this crime. When buying tickets if they do not look right...do not buy them. If the person selling the tickets does not look right...do not buy them. Trust me, you will find more tickets.
One common problem and unfortunately it does not speak well about some people in our society is that not only will you have total scum bags selling these fake tickets, many people once they realize they have bought a fake ticket will turn around and sell it trying to get their money back. Sad.
So how do you protect yourself? First, ask to see an ID. An honest person who is not committing a crime will let you take a look. The con artist will double talk his way out of showing it to you. Again, remember, if it does not feel right, walk away.
Second, everyone has a cell phone. Ask the seller to call your cell phone from their cell phone. Again, the criminal is not going to give you their cell number, the honest person will.
Seem like a lot of work? There are plenty of honest ticket brokers in Atlanta that will sell you a ticket. Yes, brokers are expensive but buy fake tickets once and suddenly their service will seem like a bargain.
2. So how about the sellers? There are some silly laws in Atlanta about how close to the venue you can sell tickets. Technically how far you are supposed to be is irrelevant because the APD seems to invent their own paramenters every time they decide to enforce the law. Hopefully the police will have more important matters to deal with than hassling honest folks selling their extra tickets Saturday but you do want to be careful if you are too close to Piedmont Park. Technically you can be arrested for this oh so silly crime. My advice, get a few blocks from Piedmont Park before you start waving your extra tickets in the air.
You also want to be careful selling your extra tickets to scalpers. There are plenty of reasonably honest scalpers in the ATL but for everyone that will treat you fairly there are 10 that will pull every trick in the book to scam your money.
When selling your tickets, count the money out loud like you are a carnival barker, ask the buyer if the amount is right and when they agree, then hand over your tickets. Never hand a scalper tickets before the money is counted and right. Some will literally run once they have your tickets in hand and you will realize too late that they only handed you $4.
Another problem in the ATL, funny money. Most of the counterfit money that gets passed at events when buying tickets is of lousy quality and easy to spot. Take the time to check for the strips inbedded in the bills and a $2 pen that detects bad money is a good investment for anyone that ever handles cash.
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http://tickets.webtickets.com/LiveTicketDetail.asp?EventID=587013
Good luck and enjoy the show.
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