Ticket resellers near you

Your favorite musician is giving a concert or you are looking for tickets for a sporting event, and everything is sold out. What is the best way to get tickets?

From the people selling paper tickets outside an event venue to huge companies reselling tickets on the same websites where you buy licensed tickets, ticket reselling is big business.

Buying and selling tickets on the secondary market can also be a risky business. Because of the lack of consistency regarding what paper tickets look like and the wide variety of online options for purchasing, ticket reselling comes with a high risk of scams.

One important thing to know is that reselling rules and regulations vary from state to state in the United States and from province to province in Canada. If you are buying or selling tickets through a third party, make sure you know the laws where you live.

Buying tickets from someone waving them around in front of a venue can be very risky. If the tickets turn out to be fake and you can’t get in, you have no record of the purchase and there’s nothing you can do to find the seller after the fact.

Going through an online broker is a safer approach, but not without its risks. There are many scams floating around the internet when it comes to ticket reselling.

Two of the most important things you can do to protect yourself when buying tickets from a reseller are to make sure the reseller is a member of the National Association of Ticket Brokers and to make your purchase with a credit card with buyer protection.

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