Selling your full price tickets , if you win lottery - Wicked

No, it's not unethical. If you say something in front of the lotto crowd, someone will want to buy them. But if you feel uncomfortable doing that, go to the box office and someone on the cancellation line will surely buy them.

Wicked is the easiest show to sell your tickets for.

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Thanks, would the BO frown upon this? I dont wnat them to think I am scalper!

You have to be a certain distance away from the theatre property. DO NOT pull someone out of line who is buying tickets. You will be sure to find theatre management after you. If you do anything on the theatre property the theatre doesnt allow, they have the right to arrest you.....it's trespassing. Just go off the property nearby and hope someone needs a ticket.

Row A is not front Row it's 5th, but still I wouldn't chance it. You already have your tickets which are better seats than you would get from the lotto.

Heck, I say if you're at the theatre, do the lotto. You already have tickets to fall back on, so it won't be *that* stressful. Here's what I would do: put your name in, and in the (unlikely) event that you do win, pick up the tickets you just won, look at the seats, and if they're better than your Row A tickets (or you decide they're more worth it for whatever reason), then sell the Row A tickets to someone around the theatre--as other posters have said, that shouldn't be a problem. If the lotto tickets you won aren't better than your Row A tickets, then just sell the tickets you won--again, shouldn't be a problem--and keep the Row A tickets. In any case, you're not likely to win the Wicked lotto anyway, but I still say try it out and just be prepared to sell one set of tickets if you win.

Does that make sense to anyone but me?

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Updated On: 8/23/06 at 11:54 AM

It's illegal to sell tickets you already have if you obtain better ones? I thought people do that all the time. Anyways, the guy running the Drowsy lotto didn't seem to care.

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I think it's illegal. When I won the RENT lottery, I had already bought tickets for that afternoon's performance, so I went to TKTS and tried to sell my tickets and a policeman was like "you cant do that--its illegal".

Hmm, I don't know what to say about that situation. Obviously, I hesitate to say that the cop didn't know what he was talking about, but that's odd...maybe it had something to do with the fact that you were back at TKTS and it looked like you were taking business directly from them? People do indeed re-sell tickets on the street all the time, and like I said there are even ways to legally make a profit doing so. You really just have to be discreet about it, and try to stay some distance away from people and establishments that might be less than happy to see you re-selling their tickets.

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Updated On: 8/23/06 at 12:31 PM

Why waste your time with the Wicked lottery if you already have excellent tickets? You might end up winning crummy tickets anyways. And you probably WON'T win, so it'll just be an annoying time killer, and you'll be standing out in the cold for no reason, when you could be doing something INDOORS.

Wow.. How tacky. A lotto isn't a "given" especailly with a show that consistent sell out.

If producers catch on to this trend they will simply stop lottos. Why abuse the system?

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"The lotto is the front 2 rows, So if you win they sell the Row A if not then you still have great seats"

Several of the seats are partial view.

Frontrowcentre2, I completely agree.
I've seen several shows more than once, and they were usually fairly boring the second time around. I think people just like to be able to say they saw the show multiple times b/c it's "cool", or they think seeing the show several times will earn them points with the actors in the show.

Can someone tell me where the 20% over face value idea comes from? It is my understanding that the sale of any ticket for greater than its face value is scalping (unless you are a licensed ticket seller in which case I believe the sky's the limit).