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Old 10-10-2007, 10:56 PM   Buying tickets for event in USA Post #1
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Just a quick question and any help would be greatly appreciated but has anyone any experience of buying tickets for an event in the USA using ticketmaster or any other ticketing service?

I'm looking to buy tickets for an event at Madison Square Garden in January. Ticketmaster states the tickets would be held at the venue and the cardholder would have to pick them up. Now the cardholder won't be travelling with me so that poses a problem. Are there any sites that I can use that may post the tickets or another way around that problem as I do not hold any debit/credit cards to use neither does my mate.

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Old 10-11-2007, 12:02 AM   Buying tickets for event in USA Post #2
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I'm guessing they won't mail the tix overseas? If not, I can't think of a good way round, except for you to get a debit card, as it comes in handy for just this sort of thing.

I'm almost positive that you can't use someone else's credit card to send the tix to an address that isn't his billing address, so don't bother trying to find someone in NY to hold the tix for you, unless they're also going to buy them for you.

If all you have is cash, and tix are sold out by the time you get to town, on the day of the event there are usually ticket scalpers outside looking for people who need tix. This is a fairly dodgy way to do things, as it is, at best, only quasi-legal, and these guys sometimes offer up counterfeit tix. But they are pretty reliable about being outside. Maybe the best way to handle it, if you go this route, is to wait to see if someone approaches them and sells them their extra tickets. Then you can have more confidence that you're getting genuine tickets. But you (probably) have to pay well above face value, even if the law says otherwise.

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It is also illegal to sell (or buy) tickets to concerts, Broadway shows, sporting events, etc., on the street for more than 10% above the stated ticket price. This does not include city-sponsored ticket outlets, rather it refers to the people you'll find outside an event walking through a crowd asking "who needs tickets?" This practice is called "ticket scalping". Although many people scalp tickets to sold-out events, you will generally pay a much higher price for tickets and sometimes the tickets are invalid or fake. To find tickets to sold-out events, it is better to use a ticket broker.
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Old 10-11-2007, 12:06 AM   Buying tickets for event in USA Post #3
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The purpose of the trip is to go to the Garden so won't be travelling all that way on the hope I can scalp some tickets but thnaks for the advice anyway.

Think just going to have to find someone to come who has a debit card or credit card
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Old 10-11-2007, 02:43 AM   Buying tickets for event in USA Post #4
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hahahaha calling professional wrestling "an event."
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Old 10-11-2007, 12:50 PM   Buying tickets for event in USA Post #5
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HAve you tried Keith Prowse? they do entertainment tickets for america.
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I got some tickets for an event at Madison Square Garden in the foyer 5 minutes before it started for 30% below face value :cool:
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Old 10-11-2007, 03:32 PM   Buying tickets for event in USA Post #7
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select 'Will Call'

it's their strange way of saying you'll pick up the tickets at the door
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select 'Will Call'

it's their strange way of saying you'll pick up the tickets at the door
Can't without the cardholder

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hahahaha calling professional wrestling "an event."
Aye, it really is more of an extravaganza.
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Old 10-11-2007, 04:09 PM   Buying tickets for event in USA Post #10
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why not say "you want to go to the Royal Rumble?"

be proud of your idiosyncrasies. don't go all euphemistic on me, I know enough to instantly know what you mean anyway.
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