Comments on: eBay to hold payments for tickets until delivered

By: Jimbo

Jimbo — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:51:45 +0000

Talking of getmein, did anyone see this in Saturdays issue http://www.guardian.co.uk/money/2009/jun/20/get-me-in-internet-booking ?

By: Pete

Pete — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:39:22 +0000

#19 I’m not sure but I think there is some eBay policy that restricts the sale of human heads…I could be wrong though

By: paul

paul — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 07:30:48 +0000

@7. I doubt that Ticketmaster would sell Getmein. they probably make more out of owning one of the biggest touting sites on the web than they do selling at face value plus booking fee on their main site.

By: John Pemberton

John Pemberton — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 11:00:30 +0000

a good idea me thinks!

By: Marc

Marc — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:04:02 +0000

Whilst I believe ebay is great to sell and buy any kind of stuff I fear though that is not the best place for tickets. Having used ebay for years it has never occurred to me to buy a ticket through because of the singularities of a ticket vs any other type of goods. For such I prefer places like Viagogo or Seatwave

By: ebuyerfb

ebuyerfb — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:26:26 +0000

But it is much more cost effective for PayPal to just hold onto that money for 45+ days. If it was legitimate, free interest. If it was a scam, free interest.

By: Eddie (AuctionChex)

Eddie (AuctionChex) — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 09:19:07 +0000

Its not too difficult for eBay to introduce something like this :

When creating a listing for event tickets – you have to input the date of the event, IF that date is greater than 45 days from the day you are attempting to create the listing on – eBay say NO

By: ebuyerfb

ebuyerfb — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 04:12:02 +0000

@ # 10

On .com you aren’t allowed to sell anything you can’t guarantee shipment of within the next 30 days. I’m sure that’s only because it is required by law in the US but that is a good rule that should be universal especially when you have a PayPal limit of 45 days.

By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 00:08:52 +0000

Sue
Issues do happen on the exchange sites like StubHub and the UK exchange sites but they have a backend infrastructure to make sure that buyers get the tickets if there is a problem with a seller. They go out and buy tickets to fulfil orders and then charge the seller.
They also hold the funds back until after the event for small sellers and for large sellers they get paid upon delivery if the seller has a proven track record.

The problems that arise on ebay are not with the small sellers selling a few tickets, instead it’s with the large sellers who get too big and just start speculating on the site.
The issues with M_t_Promotions and ticket_daddy should of been picked up a long time ago.
The selling patterns changed considerably with these sellers or seller.
The fact that the ebay id ticket daddy had been bought back in January should also of been picked up many months ago.

As I have said if ebay had specific category managers for this section then all of this would of been picked up. I can’t understand why ebay haven’t employed anyone from the secondary ticket market to oversee this section as it is very different to any other section on ebay.

By: Sue

Sue — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 23:41:28 +0000

Peter – just like to remind you that as per our comments policy, commenters are responsible for their own comments. But yes, I’d prefer that individually indentifying information was not posted on here, and if it is, it will be removed for your own protection.

So as you’re obviously a ticket seller – question for you. It’s my impression that the issues that arise with ticket sales on eBay don’t happen (or not to the same extent) on other sites like StubHub. Am I right, and if so, why is this?