I'm being threatened with fraud and theft of services, 13 V.S.A. § 2582.
I live in New York and bought lift tickets from a ski resort in Vermont. Since I never received them in the mail, I had new ones printed at the window when I got to the resort. About two weeks later I received the original tickets and sold them online to someone else in New York. One of my neighbors in my building slid the the batch of mail containing these tickets under my door so I'm not sure if they received them by mistake and just held on to them, or if the resort sent me new ones.
It turns out the resort voided the original tickets when they printed new ones for me at the window, and now the purchaser is threatening me saying he'll have the resort prosecute me for fraud and theft of services. I didn't realize they voided the tickets or I wouldn't have sold them; I just figured they sent me the original tickets which I won't be using anyway so why not sell them.
A few questions:
1) Can the resort prosecute me for fraud and theft of services? The way I see it, I paid the resort for 8 tickets and they printed 16 but ended up voiding 8, meaning ultimately there were only 8 usable tickets for which they received full compensation, so does that still count as theft of services?
2) Would the person who bought the tickets from me also be prosecuted if I am? Reading 13 V.S.A. § 2582 Theft of Services it appears someone who obtains the service AND someone who sells the service are prosecutable under the law. Also, looking into this a bit more, it looks like the resorts are more interested in going after people who pay less than full value for lift tickets (ie: someone who buys or borrows someone's ticket/season pass at a discount) than the people who sell them, since the people who sell them already paid full price for it.
I live in New York and bought lift tickets from a ski resort in Vermont. Since I never received them in the mail, I had new ones printed at the window when I got to the resort. About two weeks later I received the original tickets and sold them online to someone else in New York. One of my neighbors in my building slid the the batch of mail containing these tickets under my door so I'm not sure if they received them by mistake and just held on to them, or if the resort sent me new ones.
It turns out the resort voided the original tickets when they printed new ones for me at the window, and now the purchaser is threatening me saying he'll have the resort prosecute me for fraud and theft of services. I didn't realize they voided the tickets or I wouldn't have sold them; I just figured they sent me the original tickets which I won't be using anyway so why not sell them.
A few questions:
1) Can the resort prosecute me for fraud and theft of services? The way I see it, I paid the resort for 8 tickets and they printed 16 but ended up voiding 8, meaning ultimately there were only 8 usable tickets for which they received full compensation, so does that still count as theft of services?
2) Would the person who bought the tickets from me also be prosecuted if I am? Reading 13 V.S.A. § 2582 Theft of Services it appears someone who obtains the service AND someone who sells the service are prosecutable under the law. Also, looking into this a bit more, it looks like the resorts are more interested in going after people who pay less than full value for lift tickets (ie: someone who buys or borrows someone's ticket/season pass at a discount) than the people who sell them, since the people who sell them already paid full price for it.
