This is possibly not as bad as my experience, where Stubhub managed to fool me into thinking I was purchasing tickets from the venue, through some clever omissi

This is possibly not as bad as my experience, where Stubhub managed to fool me into thinking I was purchasing tickets from the venue, through some clever omission in their design. I paid what turned out to be twice the face value and then when I figured out my mistake I called them angrily and they told me to get lost - no refunds. The silver lining, if you can call it that, was that the tickets never were sent my the third-party seller, and I was refunded. (I wound up driving 5 hours to stand in the lobby with my best sad puppy face until the house manager took pity on me and connected me with a comped no-show for face value.)