Ticket sale gone bad

[miguy270]

My jurisdiction is: NY

A few weeks ago I sold some extra tickets to a "friend" to an event that my girlfriend and I had purchased. The person that we sold the tickets to agreed to the price we asked for which was a bit lower than the price we actually paid. The internet dealer we purchased the tickets from printed the "face value" of the tickets which is considerably lower than what they charged us which caused the other party to think that's how much the tickets are actually worth. The person is now filing a claim against us because she thinks we lied about the price of the tickets. We are not by any means a professional ticket dealer or an establised company, but we were just trying to help a friend out that badly wanted to go to the event. What's worse, we spotted this person and their friends at the event sitting in the seats we sold them even though they are trying to take us to court for them. what can we do?

 

[Theresagail]

Go to court with the amount you paid for the tickets ie.. cashed check credit card statement etc and tell the truth--

 

[Duranie]

This person probably has no claim. You are free to sell the tickets, in most states, for any amount you wish. It doesn't matter what the price on the ticket is, he agreed to a certain price regardless.

 

[dee_dub]

If they have any chance, it is only if A) you lied, and B) it caused them to pay more for the tickets than they would have.

A) is not true, because you told them what you paid. Show them the credit card receipt and tell them to stop wasting their and your time.

B) is arguably not true either. Were they unaware of the face value when they paid? And who's to say they bought them because they thought they worth X? Likely they just bought them because they wanted to go to the event and that was the price they were willing to pay.