DAYTON — Looking to attend this weekend’s Bengals-Bills playoff game? Protect your money and ensure you do not fall into a scam when purchasing tickets to the game.
NewsCenter 7′s John Bedell spoke with Dan Pruett, University of Dayton Assistant Athletic Director for Ticketing, and recommends visiting verified resale ticket exchanges such as Ticketmaster to purchase your tickets for this weekend’s game.
“Because other resale sites, people can try to sell you a ticket they don’t have yet, so they wait for you to buy the ticket from them. Then they’ll go out and try to buy the ticket to actually fulfill it. And that’s how you run into those nightmares on game day” says Pruett.
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Pruett also recommends that ticket holders for this weekend’s game not post images of the tickets, especially those that show the bar code and its number.
“The barcode is you should protect it like it’s something your personal information because if you post it online, people have your name, they now have your barcode number. Somebody could technically call the ticket office poses you, and say, Hey, something came up, I didn’t get the ticket. Can you text it to this phone number, email it to this number, and depending on who you’re talking to, they might actually send it”, Pruett added.
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