Ticket Scalping 101 (1 Viewer)

agree with great dane. compare them to tickets you know to be real. a friend of mine bought some fakes for the atlanta game. when you looked at them by themselves, they looked real, but when compared to a real ticket, it was obvious they were fake. a few of things i noticed:

first, the fakes tend to be the small tickets printed out by ticketmaster, not the big ones that come in the season ticket book.

second, the fakes tend to have a glossier finish, due to the home laminators the counterfeiters use.

third, fakes usually don't have any of the embossed gold foil stamping. if you don't see the shiny foil markings on the ticket, it's probably fake.

fourth, check out the perforations. the perforated part of the ticket was all screwy. and for the season ticket tickets, there should be a torn perforated edge on the top and one side.

hope this helps.
 
One of the biggest things you will have to watch out for is ticket forwarding. This sends someone's tickets to another person for them to print out. Then the bar codes on the initially legit tickets are voided. Therefore you get perfectlly good tickets with no legit barcode.
 
One of the biggest things you will have to watch out for is ticket forwarding. This sends someone's tickets to another person for them to print out. Then the bar codes on the initially legit tickets are voided. Therefore you get perfectlly good tickets with no legit barcode.


This was done by a few season ticket holders for the opener. At one point they were investigating if the original owners sold bad tickets and just emailed their tickets to a friend.....not sure what came out of that?
 

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