I (27F) and my friend group want to see Harry Styles at his upcoming residency at Madison Square Garden in NYC. A text thread was created to coordinate purchasing tickets for our group that I was added to, as were several other friends and mutuals.
I did not receive pre-sale, but fortunately some other friends and mutuals did. One mutual (25F) successfully purchased 8 tickets for our group. Because I am not close with this person, I texted individually outside of the group to coordinate the Zelle payment for my ticket and the eventual transfer to my Ticketmaster account.
The next morning, it was brought to my attention that she had sold my $433 ticket on accident. She had listed it online and sold it for $995. She texted kindly apologizing for the mix up and refunded my $433 I paid for the ticket.
We all agreed that we retain the right to sell our tickets once they are transferred into their accounts if folks can no longer go or if something comes up, and for that reason I maintain that it would’ve been my ticket to sell. I am uncomfortable with the dramatically increased price it was sold for and asked her if I would receive the profit since it was my ticket I had paid for. She said my request for the profit was insensitive and hurtful since she worked so hard to buy them on Ticketmaster and that technically it was her ticket to sell since she got the pre-sale, not me. AITA for thinking I should receive the profit or that the profit at the very least should be shared between our group of friends who tried to get the tickets?
If I were her I would have either given you the 995 after receiving your 433 or sent you like 715
Hard to say if anyone is really an AH
“On accident” my butt. Her actions indicate that she did it for profit.
You are NTA.
Info: If she accidentally sold your ticket then shouldn’t she have another one you can use? She knew how many people were coming total, right?
There was no accident.
INFO – I’m unclear on whether you were intending to cancel or whether the ticket you had intended to use got sold to someone else. If you were going to cancel anyway, then it was her ticket to sell. If she scalped the ticket that you were fully intending to use, then she should give you the full price that she scalped it for. Consider buying your own tickets from now on if you can’t trust your friends to buy tickets for you. She is definitely TA for scalping tickets at a 100%+ markup.
>We all agreed that we retain the right to sell our tickets once they are transferred into their accounts
As far as I know, the ticket was never transferred into your account, so I don’t see how this is relevant.
INFO: How does one “accidentally” list a ticket online and sell it? Like genuinely, how could that possibly have happened?
I feel like this had to have been deliberate, especially because it was only ONE of the tickets she bought. If she had “accidentally” sold all of them, I might buy that she just hit a weird button or something, but only one of them? And it just so happened to be the ticket for a friend of a friend that got into her presale group?
NTA I dont get how tf you can list one for sale on accident. Coincidentally its also double the price for a ticket so she just did it to get hers for free.
Now you dont have a ticket.
NTA. I don’t really buy her version of events. It sounds to me like she saw an opportunity to make a profit on the ticket and screwed you over because she doesn’t know you very well. You had already paid her, so that ticket was no longer hers to sell. She can either give you hers or give you the full amount.
ESH… The buyer sucks for selling it out from under you and you because you want all the money. You should get your $433 cost of the ticket and you both should split the ‘profit’ from the sale.
INFO: How exactly does one buy tickets for a group of friends and then accidently sell one? How was it determined within the group that it was your ticket that was accidently sold and not anyone else’s?
Convenient she sold the ticket for one she isn’t close rather than one she is close to or her own…
Here’s how I see it:
1. The mutual acquaintance bought the ticket for you, but saw an opportunity to make a profit and did so.
2. Since you are the least valuable friend in the group (no direct connection to her) she chose your ticket to sell.
3. Your acquaintance is absolutely lying as selling a purchased ticket is a multiple step process that could have stopped at any time.
4. Communication to arrange for transfer, and subsequent revelation of sale were conducted in a peer to peer chat and not a group chat.
If you had already transferred payment and it was accepted, you’re NTA.
Now here’s my hot take: you need to take all the private chats and dump them in the group chat and publicly call the individual out for lying and profiting off of your funds.
You really want to see who sides with you and who doesn’t. If no one sides with you, you don’t have a friend group; you have a mutual acquaintance group that is actually worthless.
NTA she didn’t do that accidentally
NTA.
I am sure there was no accident. She did it on purpose. She is not close to OP and $562 is a lot of money. I bet she just couldn’t resist and sold the ticket on purpose.
I am not sure how this would be judged legally as she made a contract with Ticketmaster. But morally I would say that the ticket was OP’s as she had already paid money for it and she should get the money from the sale. But as I am sure that it was sold on purpose by the mutual to make some cash, I think OP has to just live with not getting any from it.