LONG ISLAND, N.Y. (WKBW) — Those hoping to go to the game may be shelling out a pretty penny.
Tickets are running well over $100 a seat, on Ticketmaster. This is just one of the places to get a verified resale tickets for the game.
Experts shared it is always best to buy tickets from a verified seller.
7 News’ Pheben Kassahun spoke with one mother, Friday evening, who said their plans to go to the game are now in limbo, after they paid $1,600 for tickets only to find out: it was a scam.
Long Island mom of six, Kerry Weisse, was searching high and low for Bills playoff tickets for the whole family.
“We’re in one of the Bills groups and we put in there, ‘Hey, anybody have 8 tickets as far as sitting all together,” Weisse said.
Almost giving up hope on snagging tickets to the highly anticipated game.
Weisse said, “There was a bunch of people that said they had two and four. We were trying to see if the four and four would match up. It didn’t and all of a sudden this guy was like, ‘Hey, me and my brother have eight tickets’. I was like perfect!”
On Tuesday, after a few chats via Facebook, Weisse sent $1,600 for the eight tickets, via payment app “Zelle.”
Weisse said, “He said, ‘Can you do Zelle?’ I said sure. I said, ‘Can you include the parking pass?’ because they wanted $200 a ticket. I was like sure. Include the parking pass.”
Wary of sending money to people she does not know, she hoped his account was the real deal.
However, she…
