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Re:The Surreal Story of StubHub Screwing Over a Kobe Fan by GigabyteCoin on Thursday January 07, 2016 @10:29PM (#10862740)
>When the reason given for the 'mistake' is obviously false, it's not impossible.

The problem is that you could not concretely determine that to be the case. Thousands if not millions of ticket sales are canceled for a variety of reasons on StubHub every single day.

They would be going broke trying to investigate all of them for fraud, not to mention open themselves up to potential lawsuits by the alleged perpetrators they wrongly defamed if they made a mistake.

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Re:The Surreal Story of StubHub Screwing Over a Kobe Fan by Dylan16807 on Thursday January 07, 2016 @11:16PM (#10862893)
The article says that stubhub charges a 20% fee when the seller cancels. So again, they absolutely are able to investigate every such situation while making a profit. Every ticket? No. Cases where they're making over a hundred dollars? Yes.
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