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Becoming the internet police is counter productive; follow the rules here fine I am 110% for that. Take care of the people you know/family. Trying to fence the internet is impossible; same with scalping. There's too much incentive; also like STL ben said it's just a drop in the bucket. At most what; 10% of tickets get scalped?
I'm hoping people don't actually buy these badges. There could be a possibility that they receive bogus badges and it not scan successfully upon entry.
Well, on one hand yes.. scalping is cruddy behavior and against CCI's rules. While it happens at other cons, SDCC's hard enforcing of the rules keeps us regular con goers safe to an extent. If it's very difficult to sell, ideally less scalpers will even try knowing that they'll just get shut down or banned, keeping the general price that we all pay up to CCI and not up to a controlling secondary market. (second hand sellers at NYCC have too much control over the price inflation, and then that just raises the incentive for others to try).On the other hand, I'm happy to be a hard-a$$ on it if it protects the *buyers*. The less of these scam listings, the less chance that people get screwed over, scammed, or banned themselves just because they desperately wanted to find a way to get to the convention. The less we encourage dishonest tactics, the better.To be entirely honest, I've seen people with others badges at the convention. At that point, I can only hope the best for them. I won't rat people out, at the very least they didn't get scammed out of a sizable chunk of change. But that risk is always there, so when I see a family begging outside of the convention center, I can just hope that people act honestly and respect the rules. There will always be people who are desperate, and will continue to try despite what the rules say... But it keeps everyone involved out of trouble, and encourages a system where people are less likely to even /want/ to sell their hardearned badges.
We've discovered before on other threads in this forum that the forum membership is pretty split on scalpers and flippers. Some people here think there's no problem with it at all and would consider doing it themselves if the effort-to-profit ratio seemed to be worth it. Others hate scalpers and flippers with the fire of a thousand suns.Whichever side you happen to fall on, I doubt anyone's minds are really being changed in this thread.
If and when they start carding badge holders at random or if it ever was to happen, then those who have bought from scalpers may think twice to ever do it again.
I have seen random ID checks many times, at the doors.
What door are you going in? I have never seen that?
I got checked last year.... no biggie... but it does happen