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But for most conventions you CAN resell tickets, although you often have to go through the convention itself to do it (i.e. NYCC and Lyte). And that is definitely so that they can control the market/make more money.But CCI has no permitted way to resell badges, and they are a registered non-profit organization whose stated mission includes bringing comics and comics-adjacent art forms to as many people as possible. I'm sure they'd like to have more operating cash, but profit is literally not their motive.Their enforcement isn't perfect, and they don't have sophisticated systems in place to ferret out all the unscrupulous people who flout the rules for their own profit, because that costs manpower and money (both of which CCI is usually short on). But that doesn't indicate to me that they don't care.
A "lifetime ban" doesn't do much when all you have to do is use a friends address and your middle name to get around it.
As Transmute Jun pointed out, it does when you lose your comic-con account and thus returning registration.
When you have as many accounts as a professional ticket seller has they have no problem having plenty of other accounts / plenty of log ins so when its time for either sale they get through no problem. Think of it as buying groups, but for one person x100.
SDCC's solution for that is that they don't just ban you, they ban everyone in your buying group. It'll just hurt x100 if it's a buying group of 100 alternate identities.You are not allowed to view links. Register or LoginYou can also be banned from ebay. PayPal actively bans people if they sell prohibited items. While SDCC and ebay might not ban you for life, PayPal will and they really mean it.
It take's like 5 seconds to make a spare account. And 100 identities wouldn't be tied together anyway? You'd ban 4 at most in a given run because that's all that was on the order.
Even per that reddit link you sent, they could participate in open reg so it wasn't even a ban just a cancellation.
Paypal isn't banning anyone for selling tickets, especially not since they're associated directly with eBay anymore. Ebay also isn't banning you unless you are a many time multiple offender. I'd know, I've had stuff pulled multiple times before on eBay and my accounts still intact.
PayPal does ban people for transacting restricted items. If you read the countless posts about "I've been permanently limited, I didn't do anything wrong!". Right after checking if someone is 18 and over, the next question is whether they transacted a prohibited item. The reason PayPal may give you is "Some of your products or services are in violation of the PayPal Acceptable Use Policy and you can no longer use PayPal".
That is a broad statement used to justify a false narrative.