SmokeShowin
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CLICK HERE to Register for a free account and login for a smoother ad-free experience. It's easy, and only takes a few moments.Note that some sellers now can send you the tickets electronically and stubhub has relationship with the clubs too, so you can get them quickly, so the confirmation delay is not always that significant at all. I just bought some baseball tickets this week through stub hub and got them virtually instantly via e-mail.
I am always reserved about buying e-tickets like the ones that come in PDF format. There is nothing from preventing a person to print off (or email out) multiple identical tickets and of course the first person to get through the gate voids out the other identical barcodes......just something to consider when dealing with e-tickets.
I'm not sure what you're saying here.
Every time you print it out voids the previous bar codes (in case you lose the first print outs). So that, if you buy from StubHub, you print out the tickets, you're the only one who possesses valid tickets.
I follow jbb but I don't follow you. He's saying that a seller with legitimate tickets from a team could make 5 copies and sell them to 5 individual people. with the exact same bar code. The first guy through ( I always get there early when using a Stub Hub or Ebay-purchased E ticket for this reason)gets in but the next one doesn't.
I went to a Red Sox game last year and that is exactly what happened to the guy seated behind me. Stubhub promises to get you in but what if it's a sold out event?? This guy couldn't get in with his family until the 5th inning...all because the seeler sold an E ticket twice....at least twice..
Unless the guy who sells the tickets sells them to to someone else who prints out the tickets after you do and then that person is the only one who possesses valid tickets, and you show up at the game with a piece of scrap paperI'm not sure what you're saying here.
Every time you print it out voids the previous bar codes (in case you lose the first print outs). So that, if you buy from StubHub, you print out the tickets, you're the only one who possesses valid tickets.
I am always reserved about buying e-tickets like the ones that come in PDF format. There is nothing from preventing a person to print off (or email out) multiple identical tickets and of course the first person to get through the gate voids out the other identical barcodes......just something to consider when dealing with e-tickets.
I'm not sure exactly how it works, but my tickets that I bought through stubhub came directly by e-mail from the team itself. My suspicion is that what's happening here is that I bought the tickets from a season ticket holder, whose account allows him to have the club e-mail the tickets to someone by canceling the bar code on the tickets and resending them. So, since they came from the club itself even though I bought via stubhub, I fell pretty well protected.
I think MLB has a contract with stubhub. I've been to some stadiums that even have a stubhub pickup window next to the regular will call windows, so I think many of the "instant" tickets that stubhub sells are from the clubs directly.
They've always delivered on everything they've promised when I've used them.
Anybody want to share their experiences with using them to get tix?
Thanks.