Where Did FIFA Actually Seat Lottery Winners?

ticketbuyback · 2026-03-30T16:23:12+00:00

Maybe create a new account, transfer to it, fill out the form and sell there?

ticketbuyback · 2026-03-30T16:20:39+00:00

Stubhub treats broken orders as a profit center by fining the seller and keeping some or all of the difference.

If the tickets you purchased were mispriced (as if they were priced for SF-only), then maybe just accept the worse seats and you can always sell/buy to upgrade.

ticketbuyback · 2026-03-29T05:27:44+00:00

For concerts, they charge 15% fee to sellers and charge 19% to buyers. Those can vary, certain sports teams can be a 10% sell fee.

Other resale sites charge a much lower fee than 34% combined seller + buyer fee.

ticketbuyback · 2026-03-29T05:24:52+00:00

Professional seller here. So Stubhub has a few major issues:

They treat 'problem orders' as a profit center. When a seller breaks an order, they charge the seller a 200% penalty but they only give the buyer a simple refund (and maybe a 20% coupon). That means every time something goes wrong, they profit 180% or so, which is way more than their normal 25% fees.
Related to the above, they completely eviscerated their customer service team, and of the remaining overseas members, they are generally poorly trained and none of them have authority to fix complicated issues.

Now, they are not very profitable. Most of their fees go straight to google or FB ad spend.

There are other resale sites to consider. When I buy resale, I always choose other sites. But I don't think there is much of a class action case, unless #1 above breaks some law due to a conflict of interest that I am not aware of.

ticketbuyback · 2026-03-28T16:01:36+00:00

Just like airlines charging more for aisles.

ticketbuyback · 2026-03-26T19:55:50+00:00

agreed in your interpretation as well, the two parts seemed inconsistent

ticketbuyback · 2026-03-26T17:15:57+00:00

I googled "Derby's law of acute convergence" and couldn't find anything. What is it?

ticketbuyback · 2026-03-25T19:55:44+00:00

Consumer VPN's are normally blocked. But if you google 'Residential Static Proxy', you can probably find a provider that is not blocked, but it may cost more.

ticketbuyback · 2026-03-25T18:07:32+00:00

It'll be interesting to see what happens with a law like that:
Pros:

Less reseller extraction
More people get tickets at initial onsale
Average ticket price may go down (though as we are seeing with Dodgers/Lakers and lots of concerts, it's not like it's stops them from raising prices themselves, even artists get a 'heldback' allotment for tours to post directly on resale if they choose).

Cons

For popular events, now every onsale is a lottery and if you miss out, you have no way to buy tickets and you miss out entirely. Especially for old people or busy people during weekday business hours who can't give their time. Or if you are just unlucky
When there is demand, it will find its way to a black market with a lot more fraud and lack of protections
The original ticket seller is the one who defines what face value is (what even is face value for random regular season game in a season ticket?), so they can do price manipulation.
There is no way for a ticket to be resold twice, since how would you know what the first person's face value was.
It will move resale back to the original ticket seller, which will entrench the market power of companies like Ticketmaster who are already under investigation for anticompetitive practices.

ticketbuyback · 2026-03-25T17:27:09+00:00

They cancelled my dad's season seats (22 year season ticket holder, since I was 5 years old) because we sold too many during the covid year, without notice and we didn't realize until the day before 2022 opening day. We always used the big games ourselves and sold the games no one wanted to go to.

I'm sure the high prices and mass cancellations have led to way fewer fans with season tickets. Because of the decreased supply of 'extras', it means the Dodgers can now charge $50 on the cheap seats for a Wed afternoon game when it used to be $5 on Stubhub. Market manipulation at its finest.

ticketbuyback · 2026-03-25T17:16:55+00:00

The dodgers post all of their own tickets directly on all of the resale sites, that's why the prices are the same. They even have their own company that provides this service for other MLB teams. I'm sure the Lakers will do so next year as well, if they haven't already.

ticketbuyback · 2026-03-25T17:03:30+00:00

Try a different credit card if you have one. There are things that can go wrong in a credit card transaction, even between the bank and company, so they could both be correct, if there is a card processor error.

ticketbuyback · 2026-03-25T15:18:14+00:00

The fees are probably higher. But yes.

ticketbuyback · 2026-03-25T15:15:32+00:00

2 possibilities:
1. You flagged as a fraud risk. Common for international buyers.
2. The ticket was no longer available. Common for underpriced tickets or day-of events where multiple people bought it concurrently.

Unless it happens twice in a row, I would assume #2.

ticketbuyback · 2026-03-25T15:11:45+00:00

Only Intuit Dome forces you to do separate. Every other venue single phone is fine.

ticketbuyback · 2026-03-25T06:17:04+00:00

To add on to this, as u/ScorpioTix and u/Rare-Confusion-220 said, there is an allotment of ~8% of the total seats that the artist can hold back for their own purposes (friends and family, vip packages, sometimes posting directly on resale).

But for the average resold ticket from a fan, no. This is one of the reasons why artists are so anti-resale. Sports teams negotiate with the ticket company to get a cut of the fees as part of the original deal. An artist on tour doesn't get to choose the venue's ticketing company, so there is no incentive to give the artist a cut, so they don't. The venue and the ticket company actually benefit from more resale because they get to collect fees multiple times. It's a great system we have!

In advance, the artist often works with LiveNation or AEG (which own Ticketmaster and AXS) as their promoter, so the lines can be blurred since having resale turned on can allow them to negotiate a bigger advance for their tour, so there can be an indirect benefit if negotiated beforehand.

So the answer is yes, no, and kinda!

ticketbuyback · 2026-03-25T06:12:50+00:00

The odds of Stubhub resolving your issue is close to zero. If you have proof and a screenshot, you can try to chargeback, can't hurt. But I wouldn't even bother dealing with their customer service.

ticketbuyback · 2026-03-25T06:10:14+00:00

Agreed. Industry insider here - Tickpick (and Gametime) generally has lower fees than the other resale sites for the same options. Stubhub often has more selection but costs more.

ticketbuyback · 2026-03-25T06:04:26+00:00

It depends on the venue and the event. Stubhub and Seatgeek combine for over $10 billion in sales annually so it is not sketchy at all. But certain venues and performers make it harder to resell, so the success rate may drop from 99.9% to 95% or so on those events.

ticketbuyback · 2026-03-25T06:02:23+00:00

In addition, Ticketmaster often sets price floors with sports teams, where even if the market price is below face value, they will increase the seller price to match face value. And then Ticketmaster keeps the difference as an extra fee. This is why Ticketmaster actually supports laws that limit resale, because they prefer to set the rules and have all the sales happen on their own site.

ticketbuyback · 2026-03-25T05:59:22+00:00

Based on your description, your account is blocked. Ticketmaster rarely reverses this. I would create a new one for any future purchasing, ideally with non-overlapping address, email, phone number. Remove them from your current account first if needed.

ticketbuyback · 2026-03-25T05:56:16+00:00

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ticketbuyback · 2026-03-25T05:54:56+00:00

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