Resale sites renege on tickets
I'm surprised this is legal, and while the sites will claim customers clicked accept on their 58+ page disclaimer, it doesn't protect them from committing any crime they want.
A lot of sites claiming they got "screwed" on receiving their ticket allotments are lying out of their asses. They sold tickets they never actually had, trying to get more money from them early and buy them cheaper later to fulfill the order. They gambled that they would be able to make money, and the fans are the ones who got ****ed.
They're basically shorting the market on tickets. While shorting stocks is legal, there are also all sorts of regulations on it. There's nothing like that in the ticket resale market.
Basically, I claim I have 2 tickets even though I don't. I promise to sell them to you for $5K each. I take your money and wait and hope I can buy them cheaper before the game. If I can find some for $3K later, I buy them, give them to you, and pocket the difference, and the customer never knows I never had them.
But now that ticket prices are jumping up beyond $8K, I have to either lose money to fulfill the order or fail to do it, and return the money. Lots of brokers are giving extra money to avoid a potential lawsuit or to save face with the ticket buying community who will no longer trust them.
If Goodell really wants to do something important, he should stop massaging balls and do something about these fraudulent transactions.
