Flipping Adele Tix

I am getting my hands on a few comp'd Adele tickets, and I know I will know the date, but I won't know the section, row, seat until a few hours before the show. How can I best flip these tickets for cash? If anybody have any experience with this, I'd appreciate it.

Talk to a ticket service.

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I am getting my hands on a few comp'd Adele tickets, and I know I will know the date, but I won't know the section, row, seat until a few hours before the show. How can I best flip these tickets for cash? If anybody have any experience with this, I'd appreciate it.
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That’s a tough one. Without the actual tickets I don’t think you can use a ‘regular’ secondary seller like Stub Hub. And finding someone who wants to actually buy them from you without knowing any of the details is a stretch. You may have to wait until you have tickets in hand to list them. And I wouldn’t be totally surprised if there is something that will block you from selling them on a StubHub like site. Keep us updated.

It depends on if you get paper tickets or the type that are emailed to you, such as emailed to your ticketmaster account.

Some virtual tickets may not be transferred. We ran into that issue once actually with a concert where the casino forgot to issue tickets to us. So then one of the casino employees bought tickets for own personal ticketmaster account using the casino's credit card, intending to transfer them to us, but they ended up being the type of virtual tickets that could not be transferred.

I have sold comp'ed paper tickets right at the event, such as when we had extras or showed up at the event and decided that we just didn't want to go (because some scalper was offering some ridiculous sum to buy the tickets), but also I've gone to events with an extra ticket and not sold it at all, simply because I didn't notice anyone who wanted to buy the extra and I didn't feel like standing around hawking it.

With comp'ed tickets typically the casino does not issue them until the day of the concert, maybe partly because they want to make sure you will confirm that you are going, and also so that you won't be able to sell them off in advance as you won't even know exactly where you will be seated (unless you know you're going to be in the casino's suite, and in that case selling them would be a bad idea, because the casino hosts in the box might be able to figure out that there are outsiders in there, and that you are not present).


The situation you describe, you will probably have to go to the event and stand around and try to sell them, and maybe even hang out with the buyers until they enter so that they will know for sure that the tickets are valid and unused. If the event does not allow reentry, then one person who doesn't care could come back out with a handful of used paper tickets and try to sell them, as part of some scam, would be why any vigilant ticket buyer would not even want to pay until sure could get in. Over all, trying to sell what you are getting sounds like more hassle than it is usually worth.