Cancellation Lines --- How To Sell?

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Cancellation Lines --- How To Sell?

Posted: 2/20/06 at 9:47pm

Sorry if this information is somewhere else, I couldn't find it anywhere in my searches.

How exactly do cancellation lines work? I've never done one before, as I can almost never afford to pay full price for a show. That said, I understand that people line up in the hope that someone with a ticket will be unable to come and resell their ticket through the box office.

Long story short, I have a single ticket to The Odd Couple in March for a show I can't attend. I want to sell it legitimately. How do I do this? Do I just go to the box office earlier in the day on the date of the performance? I get my money back if someone buys it, right? I assume there'll be a high demand for any tickets to this show. Help!

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Posted: 2/20/06 at 9:51pm

It's perfectly legal to resell your ticket - as long as you don't try to make money off of it. You can try to sell it in advance (through eBay for example) or do what you say and try to sell it in front of the theatre. I saw lots of people doing that when The Producers was the hot show and people lined up for hours for cancellations. Neither police nor theatre employees tried to stop them.

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Posted: 2/20/06 at 9:52pm

Ves, i PMed you.

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Posted: 2/20/06 at 9:55pm

Its not the theatre but when I went to see Patti Smith at BAM, it was told out and they told me that they 'recommended' coming for the cancellation line because people 'always cancel'

That being sent said some guy came up to me and friend Ginger and sold us orchestra seat for face value.

someone will want the tickets.

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Posted: 2/20/06 at 9:56pm

You can make a profit, I believe in Ny state the max profit on ticket re-sales is 200%.

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Posted: 2/20/06 at 10:07pm

Nope. New York state law limits additional charges to no more than 20% of face value - to cover the seller's out of pocket costs. Any more is considered to be scalping and that's illegal.

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mamie4 5/14/03

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Posted: 2/20/06 at 10:13pm

Most theaters will send you away if you just start walking up to people trying to give them tickets right in front of the theater. I would talk to the box office. Each theater has a different policy.

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