COVID exposure ticket policies for Suffs

I haven't done it, but you should be able to do a ticket transfer to someone else's Public account.

https://thepublictheater.typeform.com/to/fxUsBwxZ

Not exactly the same but I reached out when I was unable to attend due to a death in my immediate family and they made a one time exception and refunded the tickets so may be worth asking.

This is not what you asked, but if I am understanding your situation correctly, you need not refrain from going pursuant to the extant protocol. (And yes I also understand that each of us should do what we feel comfortable doing.) Each of us is exposed daily but the notification is intended to prompt testing and heightened vigilance (for symptoms). If you are negative and have no symptoms, you can go see the show. (And you will, of course, be wearing a mask.) Whether you want to or not is your choice but bear in mind that under your protocol there is no possible way to make theatre (or much of anything else).

jpbran said: "List em online (Tickpick, StubHub, SeatGeek, etc.) I listed ours when our plans changed (and Public wasn’t helpful), and they sold quickly. And for a LOT. Was shocked. (The buyer will need to have/get a Public account so you can transfer to them.)"

So you scalped your tickets. Classy. When I sell mine, I sell them for what I paid. Because I think profiting off another’s work is pretty gross.

iluvtheatertrash said: "So you scalped your tickets. Classy. When I sell mine, I sell them for what I paid. Because I think profiting off another’s work is pretty gross."

I don't think it's apt all that often but this just cries out for the response "you do you."

By the way, in the theatre, we profit off the work of others. It's called collaboration.

HogansHero said: "iluvtheatertrash said: "So you scalped your tickets. Classy. When I sell mine, I sell them for what I paid. Because I think profiting off another’s work is pretty gross."

I don't think it's apt all that often but this just cries out for the response "you do you."

By the way, in the theatre, we profit off the work of others. It's called collaboration."

1) Collaboration is not buying a ticket, then selling it for more than the venue, and pocketing the profit. That's not collaboration.

2) Venues were closed for 18 months. They lost a ton of business. Scalping, now more than ever, is wrong.

3) Roll your eyes out of your head all you want. Selling a ticket for "A LOT" more than you paid for it is scalping, no matter how you look at it.

4) Don't ever, EVER complain about scalpers if you're doing this kind of stuff.

(editing, since my bullets didn't show, and all of the text ran together)

This discussion was great to get to read, and I appreciate it.

Here's further details:

1) One of the four of us is the person with COVID, and they're my husband. Somehow, with masking and isolation as possible in a small one bedroom/one bathroom NYC apartment I continue to test negative as recently as yesterday (both antigen and PCR), though I'm coughing and congested, and generally feeling unwell (sympathy "pains" or some other seasonal malady?). Our two other potentially also exposed seatmates have both chosen to bow out of attending.

2) The very nice, but firm person on the phone at the Public Theater wasn't offering a refund, but offered to put a credit into my Public Theater account, or accept the tickets as a donation. The Public Theater allows credited amounts to be held until August 15 of each year, no matter when accumulated.

3) It seem quite possible that I couldn't use the $400 credit for the 4 tix by August 15, so it was seeming likely to become a donation.

4) I discovered that I would be allowed to use my credit to purchase a gift certificate, which would be good for 5 years - a period of time more than reasonable for me to expect to use the credit at the Public.

5) The only other options I tried were posting on the Buy and Sell board of BroadwayWorld.com, and trying to post them on StubHub.

6) Stubhub, as has been reported, isn't able to re-sell electronic tickets, which mine are, for events at the Public - only paper tickets allowing for the advance shipping time necessary.

7) My posting yesterday of the tickets at face value on the Buy and Sell board of BroadwayWorld.com was removed for some reason (not sure why). I'd hoped to sell them there at face value to an ardent theater-lover participating in this community.

8 I haven't tried TicketPick or SeatGeek, and it not only seems late to try that for tonight's performance, but I think I'm okay with the credit becoming a gift certificate good for 5 years (before the August 15 deadline).

Updated On: 5/2/22 at 11:43 AM

iluvtheatertrash said:

"3) Roll your eyes out of your head all you want. Selling a ticket for "A LOT" more than you paid for it is scalping, no matter how you look at it.

4) Don't ever, EVER complain about scalpers if you're doing this kind of stuff."



I did and I will roll my eyes. Thanks for the permission though, babe! Again, there is a false equivalency between people whose livelihood is snatching hot tickets in order to resell them (and with or without your permission, we can complain about them).

If someone who has a ticket places a threshold in which the monetary value exceeds the experience value, it is wholly in their right, and not even morally ambiguously, to sell. This holds true with literally any asset one posses - homes, cars, collectibles. Capitalism sucks, but it's what we got. Unclench your jaw, breathe, relax.

Updated On: 5/1/22 at 03:16 PM

To close the loop: I quickly received an email reply confirming the full amount including fees was placed in my Public Theater account.

To wrap up my comment that sort of derailed this, just know the money is going to good theatrical use. Not that it really matters, but I used the $800+ I cleared (and yes, my listing was far lower than others) to get tickets for my husband and I to go to a Strange Loop, Bedwetter, and Broadway Bares the last weekend in June. Gonna add an additional show too, but not sure what. The sale is what finalized our decision to make a third NY trip this year (in addition to Apr and Oct) which will also include three days of a hotel stay, dining out, local bars, etc.


I hope this meets theatertrash’s high moral standard.

When y’all try to get a ticket to that show you wanna see and scalpers beat you and raise the prices, don’t complain. Because you’re doing the same thing.

I'm not slow or stupid so I'll be alright. Thanks so much though.

And Taffy, you are correct.