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In New York State, it is illegal to prohibit the transfer of tickets, which complicates most obvious approaches to stopping scalpers. https://www.nysenate.gov/l
by justinlkarr 4y ago
In New York State, it is illegal to prohibit the transfer of tickets, which complicates most obvious approaches to stopping scalpers. https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/ACA/25.30 https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/ACA/25.30
- bombcar 4y agoThis appears to mainly apply to season tickets and subscription-based tickets, at least at first glance.
- justinlkarr 4y agoLook at paragraph (c), a little pro-reseller nugget buried in an otherwise very consumer friendly law. That paragraph is the reason obvious anti-scalping practices can't work in one of the US's largest live event markets.
- judge2020 4y agoIf I'm not mistaken, this[0] seems to be a commentary on the law. As I understand it after having read that article, the law seems to be in an effort to encourage reselling by the regular person in case of travel/event plans changing, while introducing fines to prohibit egregious scalpers. However, it seems it's just some fines for these activities, and I can't find any case where scalpers were convicted and fined under this statute (but maybe my Google-fu is weak). 0: https://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1429&context=jlp https://brooklynworks.brooklaw.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?artic...
- justinlkarr 4y agoIce is the old practice of producers (aka rights holders) or box office staff taking tips to make tickets available to resellers. This is illegal and is not common anymore. The era of computerized ticketing has made it much harder to do.