For a few of our most popular NGLive events we have experienced some scalping happening right in our lobby in front of us. We are working with our Development team to offer an option for patrons to donate their ticket back to us (and in turn receive a receipt) so that we can re-sell these tickets at face value. While we hope this will help I wanted to see what other policies exist for unused/unwanted tickets the night of a show. Additionally, how do you deal with scalping?
Thanks,
Lisa
Hi Lisa,
For our series events, we do offer the option to donate back tickets. However, in the case of outside renters, this is not an option. Only in VERY limited cases do I tell patrons they may sell to other ticketbuyers – but they must situate themselves far away from the BO window.
Jessica Damrow Sherman
Assistant Ticket Office Manager
The Performing Arts Center
Purchase College
735 Anderson Hill Road
Purchase, NY 10577
914.251.6214
jessica.damrow@purchase.edu
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We require guests who are reselling their tickets to operate across the street from our campus and security will escort them there if necessary.
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Nicole Keating Senior Director, Ticket Services The Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts of Miami-Dade County 1300 Biscayne Blvd. Miami, FL 33132 ph. (786) 468-2330 fx. (786) 468-2005 www.arshtcenter.org
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Regarding Policies
In some municipalities / states there are laws that cover ticket re-sale.
If you don't know your check them out. Apparently they vary widely.
As part of our ticketing policies we do have an option for patrons to donate their seats back to the theatre for a tax receipt. Generally people seem happy with that option. If they refuse, we give them a choice of either giving their tickets to a friend, or selling the ticket themselves for face value of the ticket. You will have to research your local area laws in regards to scalping, but when it happens to us, we do ask patrons to move out of the lobby.
Good luck!