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Right. I was a season ticket holder for the San Diego Padres (sigh...don't judge), and they exclusively (and very conveniently) use Stub Hub as a means to resell tickets. In fact, the standard MLB ticket policy (at least we were told it was standard MLB and not just a Padres policy), is ticket holders are allowed to sell half of their season's tickets via Stub Hub, regardless of resell value. Some tickets I sold less than face value, some I sold for quite a bit more than face value.CCI obviously has a strict no transfer policy, but 'scalping' of tickets isn't illegal in most states
I know everyone is always frightened to death of being banned from SDCC, but has anyone ever known anyone who was banned?
I've known a couple, actually:* a Pro who was trying to be cool and sell his guest badge. They posted on a FB group wall offering the 5-day guest badge for sale (it was a paid guest badge, and the Pro was just asking for the person to pay for the badge - meaning, "hey, I have a guest badge to whomever wants to claim it/pay for it themselves"). CCI caught wind, canceled both their badge and the guest badge, and banned them for a couple of years.* a Pro who got caught trying to sell a comp. guest badge. He was banned permanently, and his company had to smooth it out w/CCI as CCI was looking into canceling all comp. Pro badges from the company (the guy lost his job over the incident as well).* a Volunteer got busted scalping their badge. He put it up on Craig's List the week/day of the Convention, and someone totally set him up with CCI: went through the motion of buying the badge, scanned it on a CCI computer, and the person was banned from Comic-Con permanently: from buying a badge as well as volunteering.I know the Pro in the first example (who is back to being a Pro, but missed a few SDCCI and WonderCons over the incident), and was told about the other incident from a manager of the company who had to deal with the issue first hand. The third incident was told by a friend of mine that I trust, but I can't 100% vouch for it as it's essentially boiled down to "a story a buddy told me." The other two I heard first-hand, though. I won't divulge any more info about the incidents out of privacy for all involved (the company was INCREDIBLY embarrassed).
Those are interesting stories!Now, does anyone know of people using someone else's badge and getting caught at the door through random ID checks? I've never actually witnessed an ID check.
I've never seen the random ID check, but it would be my luck that my badge would be the first one checked so no way would I loan it out. I've had friends loan theirs, though. They were sweating bullets the whole time. I just couldn't do that.
I've known a couple, actually:* a Pro who was trying to be cool and sell his guest badge. They posted on a FB group wall offering the 5-day guest badge for sale (it was a paid guest badge, and the Pro was just asking for the person to pay for the badge - meaning, "hey, I have a guest badge to whomever wants to claim it/pay for it themselves"). CCI caught wind, canceled both their badge and the guest badge, and banned them for a couple of years
[member=380]perc2100[/member] - I was just reading some interesting things about the fluctuating fees on StubHub. What did you think of their fees from the seller’s POV?
Yes, a few years ago on Sunday late afternoon, the guards starting doing random checks as I was heading inside. They stopped at least two people. One had a booth vendor badge but the name was etched out, so of course they stopped him. I think the booth was switching them out for workers? And a woman who was using her husband’s badge. It was a guy’s name so they stopped her. Of course her ID didn’t have her husband’s name, they confiscated the badge around her neck. I was checked and let in. This was one of the last years before RFID. With that maybe they don’t check as much now?