I bought tickets, now someone can't go....what do I do with the ticket?
I bought tickets, now someone can't go....what do I do with the ticket?
#1I bought tickets, now someone can't go....what do I do with the ticket?
Posted: 3/24/09 at 11:04pm
What are my legal options?
It is first preview for Godot, April 3rd 8pm.
Thanks!
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sgv123
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#2re: I bought tickets, now someone can't go....what do I do with the ticket?
Posted: 3/24/09 at 11:07pmWhere did you get the ticket?
#2re: I bought tickets, now someone can't go....what do I do with the ticket?
Posted: 3/24/09 at 11:09pmWhat state do you live in? What state is the billing address of the credit card you used?
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#3re: I bought tickets, now someone can't go....what do I do with the ticket?
Posted: 3/24/09 at 11:10pmThey were those $10 tickets when tix for the show first went on sale.
I'll have them clawing at eachother, like drag queens at a wig sale"
#4re: I bought tickets, now someone can't go....what do I do with the ticket?
Posted: 3/24/09 at 11:31pmSell it?
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#5re: I bought tickets, now someone can't go....what do I do with the ticket?
Posted: 3/24/09 at 11:34pmGive it to Foster?
#6re: I bought tickets, now someone can't go....what do I do with the ticket?
Posted: 3/24/09 at 11:35pmA $10 ticket? Well, if it were me, I'd offer it for free to a friend or someone here on the BroadwayWorld boards. Or you can try to sell it, but I think legally you can't sell it for more than it's value (depending on what state you live in).
"The Spectacle has, indeed, an emotional attraction of its own, but, of all the parts, it is the least artistic, and connected least with the art of poetry. For the power of Tragedy, we may be sure, is felt even apart from representation and actors. Besides, the production of spectacular effects depends more on the art of the stage machinist than on that of the poet."
--Aristotle
--Aristotle
#7re: I bought tickets, now someone can't go....what do I do with the ticket?
Posted: 3/24/09 at 11:43pmI'd gladly buy it from you.....
#8re: I bought tickets, now someone can't go....what do I do with the ticket?
Posted: 3/24/09 at 11:47pmI'd gladly buy it from you too!
miss pennywise
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#9re: I bought tickets, now someone can't go....what do I do with the ticket?
Posted: 3/24/09 at 11:58pm
Ticket resale laws are governed by each state, as several posters have pointed out.
But, seriously, (also as several posters have pointed out), for 10 bucks, give it to a dear friend or ask out that "special person" you've been hoping to spend some quality time with and make it a gift! OR hurry and donate it to a non-profit that can auction it for more than the face value and raise some much-needed revenue in these tough times. (Tickets resold for charitable organizations are usually not bound by the same legal restrictions as "regular" resellers.)
Or sell it to one of the people offering you ten bucks for it.
Then again, since it's only 10 bucks, the night of the show, walk up and hand to someone standing in front of the theatre or waiting in the cancellation line just to be a nice guy. 
Have I given you enough options?
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#10re: I bought tickets, now someone can't go....what do I do with the ticket?
Posted: 3/25/09 at 12:19amOkay cool, and $10 to a college is a lot of booze money so I will have to decide what to do.
I'll have them clawing at eachother, like drag queens at a wig sale"
dramamama611
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#11re: I bought tickets, now someone can't go....what do I do with the ticket?
Posted: 3/25/09 at 3:25am
Well, seeing how you already have TWO offers to BUY the ticket...what's the big decision? Don't feel bad if you need/want to sell it....money is money; we all need it.
This is particularly EASY since you are still going to the show...all you need to do is meet up and make the exchange!
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#12re: I bought tickets, now someone can't go....what do I do with the ticket?
Posted: 3/25/09 at 6:38am
$10 to a college is a lot of booze money so I will have to decide what to do.
That is possibly the saddest thing I've read in a long time. It is possible to enjoy college without drinking yourself into a stupor all the time.
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#13re: I bought tickets, now someone can't go....what do I do with the ticket?
Posted: 3/25/09 at 7:36amThanks so much for asking me to go!
Dollypop
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#14re: I bought tickets, now someone can't go....what do I do with the ticket?
Posted: 3/25/09 at 8:09am
This happened to me a while ago. I had a $10 ticket for a Roundabout show and my friend told me he had a "family emergency" only a few days before the performance date. As it was only $10, I offered it free to the 1st person at BWW who responded. It turned out to be a very nice evening.
Oh, what was the "family emergency"? my friend had? His dog's funeral. And the dog had been dead for a week! Enough said.
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#15re: I bought tickets, now someone can't go....what do I do with the ticket?
Posted: 3/25/09 at 10:04amI dont know about others, but if I agree to go to something and need to cancel (regardless of reason), I always pay for the ticket if the purchaser can't find a buyer. Sometimes it is hard finding people in a pinch who are interested. No one who fronts the money for tickets should ever be left high and dry. The person who originally agreed to go should ante up if all else fails.
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#16re: I bought tickets, now someone can't go....what do I do with the ticket?
Posted: 3/25/09 at 10:07am
"I dont know about others, but if I agree to go to something and need to cancel (regardless of reason), I always pay for the ticket if the purchaser can't find a buyer. Sometimes it is hard finding people in a pinch who are interested. No one who fronts the money for tickets should ever be left high and dry. The person who originally agreed to go should ante up if all else fails."
Do you know how rare that is?
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#17re: I bought tickets, now someone can't go....what do I do with the ticket?
Posted: 3/25/09 at 10:10amCollege student or not, it's ten dollars. I could see handwringing over an eighty dollar ticket you fronted, but it's ten dollars.
#18re: I bought tickets, now someone can't go....what do I do with the ticket?
Posted: 3/25/09 at 10:37am
I agree, 10 dollars is a movie ticket. You really have the opportunity to make someone's day by giving it away or having them buy you a drink after. Now a full price ticket...that is worth sweating over.
Eris, it is too bad that my behavior is viewed as rare. People should take responsibility for commitments that cost money up front. The day I order tickets for a group, I email all interested parties and ask them to write a check to my credit card for the cost of the ticket. It has never backfired. If something gets cancelled, I give them their money back. If they can't go, it puts the onus on THEM to find a buyer or give the ticket away. It is out of my hands. The ticket purchaser should NEVER be the one scrambling.
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"I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello
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#19re: I bought tickets, now someone can't go....what do I do with the ticket?
Posted: 3/25/09 at 12:16pmEris... is that really rare? I don't think it is. If someone cancels it is always their responsibility to pay for the ticket. It is still their ticket. That actually makes me really angry to hear that someone would be so low.
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dramamama611
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#20re: I bought tickets, now someone can't go....what do I do with the ticket?
Posted: 3/25/09 at 12:50pm
But it's HIS ten bucks...that he shouldn't have to "eat" it.
And I agree....I would offer to PAY for the ticket if I had to back out. I'd be the one trying to find someone to buy it, too.
If we're not having fun, then why are we doing it?
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#21re: I bought tickets, now someone can't go....what do I do with the ticket?
Posted: 3/25/09 at 12:52pmDid you ask said friend to pay you for it anyway?
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