Is this legal????

[mountainbiker]

A friend at work had decided to go to a local sporting event. Went out bought the tickets (five of them for his family) and all that. When his wife saw that the event was on a weeknight she said they couldn't go because it was a school night for their son. So here he was with tickets he couldn't use and comes up to me asking if I could put them on e-bay and maybe get his money out of them for him. I tell him no problem. The tickets cost him $100+/each, but we're Federal Government workers so he got them on a big discount on them and only paid a fraction of the price. He told me that anything I got over the amount of the that he paid for the tickets, I could keep. So I've sold them and made a few bucks on it and everyone is happy. Now, my question is, was this a legal sale? It didn't occur to me until after I had put the tickets up for sale that this may be scalping and I really don't have any idea how that works. The price we sold them for didn’t come close to the actual value of the tickets, but did sell them for more than what my buddy paid for them. What exactly is scalping?

[mountainbiker]

A quick revision, my buddy didn't pay 100+/each. The value of the tickets were worth 100+/each. He paid a small fraction of that price.

[retdetsgt]

Yeah it's legal. Some places have laws against "scalping" within a certain distance of the event. But selling the tickets on Ebay shouldn't be a problem.

[Lfpdlieu302]

you should be ok, as retdetsgt stated. we have a deal here that if the tickets are sold at the event, they cannot be sold for more than the face value of the ticket. that would be scalping.