Are Eventim concert tickets valid via photo?
Hey guys, a few days ago I sold original Eventim concert tickets because I unfortunately couldn't make the concert. I put them on eBay where a man had bought them. We met up and he got the original tickets for that price. Today he called and said the tickets had already been canceled or redeemed and he allegedly had to buy new tickets on site even though he already had the original physical tickets before the concert started and now he wants his money back?! Could it be (since I stupidly uploaded the concert tickets with the visible barcode) that someone simply took a screenshot of it and then sneaked into the concert using a photo of the tickets or is the guy just trying to pull my leg? And even if that were to happen, can the guy just demand his money back?
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It would be possible that the buyer, just because You had made the tickets open to the net, had planned from the outset to visit the concert and then reclaim the money on precisely this grounds. But, of course, he can’t be underestimated.
I regularly get a slingshot trauma when I see on classifieds or eBay how many people hire their tickets with open bar or QR code.
Of course such a code, if the image is sharp, can be scanned by a photo as well as by the original ticket. You don’t even have to make a pdf and print it out, but you can just show the photo on your smartphone!!!
Scanning any codes from any objects, posters or elsewhere is still going to exist today, so everyone who uses a smartphone should also know that it is completely lit, where such a code is on it or as it is shown is important only that it is complete and can thus be read by the scanner.
And each ticket code is only valid 1x. If the code has already been scanned by an image and thus devalued, you can’t use the original tickets anymore.
I’ve done it myself, selling tickets literally last minute, because I was in jam and never had reached the concert in time.
Or in the morning sick and shipping was no longer possible.
Photographing tickets, offering with blackened code on the picture in the Annonce and then sending the original photo to the buyer quickly. That’s enough for him to come in.
If in the present case the buyer actually had to buy new tickets to get in, and this can prove in the form of tickets purchased at the cash register and a purchase order, then, if the buyer actually submits a complaint, probably in his favor, because of course he has a right to valid tickets with which he can actually visit the concert.
The unawareness of both parties seems to rise more or less to each other. The buyer has not received what he paid, namely tickets that enabled him to enter the concert. And that the tickets were not valid, not the buyer, but the Verificationto answer buyers.
From this: Yes, of course, the purchaser may demand his money back if the goods he has received do not have the promised properties (to enable him to enter the concert).
However, it is still the question whether the buyer would actually follow the path of a civil action, because it would have to first put forward all costs. And with someone who’s already with the seller “I know where you live“, I have considerable doubts as to whether it comes up with the civil right. Especially when he realizes that he has to pay for a reminder and all the other steps…
What is the amount we’re talking about?
And how were the tickets paid?
Bar at hand?
Or directly via eBay?
You acted quite negligently to use a valid ticket barcode. To make a real looking Print@Home ticket, it’s not that hard at all. In this respect, if the situation was actually as described by the buyer, you bear a co-responsibility.
On the other hand, the buyer could also try to obscure you. Can he prove that he had to buy new tickets?
So far he could not prove that he had to buy new tickets but in the end the buyer is carrying a risk or not? He has seen the tickets including barcodes on the photos and if he had decided to buy I could not know that with the barcodes and the Print@home tickets at all!
ignorance does not protect here. But good point, of course, he would not have had to take the risk.
What would happen to you if he went to court because he threatened me a few times? In the end, he made a mistake by buying eBay himself, as I did not attempt fraud, which I can prove. + he threatened to look for me as he knows where I live can also use it as a threat to him?