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How to avoid fake tickets?

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CloneDontCare

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I live in Chicago, and I'm looking at tickets on the chance we make it here next weekend.

Craiglist has better listings from local people than what's on stubhub, etc. Hard tickets. Problem is, I don't know how to avoid being scammed and buying fakes. Anyone have advice? What should I look for? Anyway to confirm the tickets are real in advance, or do you just take the chance?
 
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But as many as you can and send them to me. For a small fee I will confirm which tickets are legit and send back to you. Anything deemed fake I will destroy for you...
 
jboffer said:
But really, I assume some of you have done this before... are there no best practices here?
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There should be pictures of the tickets that you can verify. Make sure the barcodes are blacked out, or someone might duplicate them, and use them.
 
Sold tickets on CL but never bought any, for this very reason. Would recommend a 3rd party site that offers a guarantee on the tickets. There's a reason the ones you see on CL are cheaper (risk).
 
kulomo said:
Sold tickets on CL but never bought any, for this very reason. Would recommend a 3rd party site that offers a guarantee on the tickets. There's a reason the ones you see on CL are cheaper (risk).
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This. Should not be a problem with stubhub.
 
wgleason said:
This. Should not be a problem with stubhub.
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Yep, StubHub loves to extract their pound of flesh, but it can be worth it for big events like this where fake/compromised tickets might be an issue and they'll back you up if they don't work for some reason.
 
Lol, met a guy off Craiglists with the most hilariously obviously fake tickets.

Worth a shot. Guess I'll stick to the regular markets.
 
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