I understand that, but what does the seller gain here? The buyer is "paying" $371 for the "card", so Ebay charges him fees based on that amount. He isn't getting around anything this way.
it's not against ebay policies, but it may be illegal. what the seller is trying to do is get around scalping laws. depending on where you live you can only sell tickets for X% over face value. by this auction the seller thinks he can "sell the card" for some ridiculous price and then "throw in the tickets for free". but if the authorities really wanted to make the effort to go after him I think he would still be in trouble since the card is obviously no where near worth that money.
Scalping laws have always baffled me. People can buy junk stocks like Enron or K mart. They can lose their money buying lotto tickets (from the government no less!), they can buy and sell other junk.
But when someone sells tickets above face value....stop the presses,...protect innocent people!
<< <i>Scalping laws have always baffled me. People can buy junk stocks like Enron or K mart. They can lose their money buying lotto tickets (from the government no less!), they can buy and sell other junk.
But when someone sells tickets above face value....stop the presses,...protect innocent people! >>
Generally, scalping laws - at least the ones I'm familiar with - only prevent you from charging over face-value at the site of the event. If you want to sell tickets in the newspaper for over face-value, you can. I may be wrong, however
There was some sort of brouhaha when Star Wars started appearing on Chinese bootleg DVDs and people got around ebay's rules on copyright violations by selling a piece of lint and getting the DVDs for free. I think some of those auctions got shut down, too, even though according to the letter of the rules at the time it was legit. But I'm sure if the DA of whatever jurisdiction or the Leafs or the league complained to ebay, it'd get shut down, too.
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That is not my point. Something sounds very fishy about selling a card WITH "FREE" tickets.
By saying the auction is for the card, the seller is saying they are not "selling"
the tickets but giving them as a bonus. Ebay
But when someone sells tickets above face value....stop the presses,...protect innocent people!
<< <i>Scalping laws have always baffled me. People can buy junk stocks like Enron or K mart. They can lose their money buying lotto tickets (from the government no less!), they can buy and sell other junk.
But when someone sells tickets above face value....stop the presses,...protect innocent people!
Generally, scalping laws - at least the ones I'm familiar with - only prevent you from charging over face-value at the site of the event. If you want to sell tickets in the newspaper for over face-value, you can. I may be wrong, however
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