Happened to me once on this tour at the first MSG show. MSG is the absolute worst for counterfeiting so I was super careful too. My mom's boss is a ticket broker but didn't have really great seats for the show that night. Decided to go the day before and talked to a friend who had just gotten a great deal for tickets on the 2nd MSG show. She gave me her guys # and I bought 2 floor seats for a lot of money each. Was suspicious at the bar before the show with lots of other FM people I know who had tix that looked different, but all theirs looked slightly different from each other's too so wasn't too worried. In line outside the venue I saw over a dozen people with tix that looked just like mine so I figured I was safe. Then my friend and I got stopped right as we went to enter the inner part of the venue and we were told they were fake. I freaked the hell out but my friend was super calm and amazing and she chilled me out and we got lucky getting one of the last pairs of floor seats from the ticket machine for $99 each 15 minutes after 8pm. Got into the show minutes before it started and amazingly ended up getting to spend the night at the stage. We were really, really lucky. It was depressing that all those other people around me with the same kind of tix had fake seats too, they probably didn't luck out as well as we did.
I called to scream at the seller and he seemed completely oblivious and swore he didn't know because he just buys peoples tickets when they can't make it to the show and resells them. He swore he was counterfeited himself. Thought it was bull until the next night when my friend who wouldn't heed my warning with her tix from the same guy, actually got in. Her tickets from the same guy were 100% real. So the guy might've been telling the truth.
But now I'm much more careful. Ticketmaster's Resale seats are always legit (not that cheap usually, but at least it's a surefire thing). Stubhub is usually good too. My mother's boss swears by it and he's a professional ticket broker. If there's ever a scammer on stubhub, they have 100% guarantees and will refund you and attempt to get you legit seats for your show.
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