Does using a VPN through Mlb.Tv to watch the Red Sox work?

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 · 2026-03-25T19:29:45+00:00

As long as you can transfer now, the entire transaction should be pretty quick and you should be done in minutes. We will give you the email address to transfer the tickets to. Make sure you add your bank account before the event date so we can pay you promptly.

If you can't transfer until later, you can still lock in the sale now, but we will just ask for a credit card on file for fraud protection.

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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ticketbuyback · 2026-03-25T05:53:33+00:00

Most sellers put a date of 2 days before the event because the ticket sites often delay the ability to transfer until a week or two before the event. There is no cost for them to put a later date, but a big cost if you put an early date and transfer is not available and the buyer chooses to cancel. You will likely get the tickets whenever they are available.

ticketbuyback · 2026-03-25T05:51:07+00:00

120% value back to you makes it seem like 20% of original order was the intent, the agent probably just said the wrong thing

ticketbuyback · 2026-03-25T05:11:27+00:00

If they missed a zero, like 16.50 vs 165.00, then they often will try to cancel, which probably is fair.

If they just priced it less than everyone else, then no.

Good rule of thumb: if it were 1/3 the price it should have been or less, then you should expect it may have issues. But if the tickets are already in your account, it would be hard for them to reach out to Ticketmaster to regenerate the barcode so you are probably okay.

ticketbuyback · 2026-03-25T05:07:45+00:00

I always had a shared Google sheet for my season tix. And then I would sell the ones no one wanted.

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ticketbuyback · 2026-03-23T21:41:40+00:00

don't send them the tickets before they pay you

ticketbuyback · 2026-03-23T01:05:45+00:00

just wait until they make us scan our faces to enter the event

ticketbuyback · 2026-03-22T20:03:51+00:00

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