Selling tickets online? How to look legit and not get scammed yourself

You can't make the show. You post your tickets at face value, with proof, and say you can transfer through the app. Then nothing. Or worse, a flood of "is this still available" from accounts that never follow through, while the real buyers scroll past because you look exactly like the twenty scam accounts posting the same night.

That is the problem honest sellers have now. The scam accounts copy everything real sellers do: face value, screenshots, "can't go anymore". Buyers cannot tell you apart at a glance, so they either do not buy or they go to a resale site and pay the fees.

Show buyers who you are, before they ask

Get an Anchor and post the link with your offer.

Anchor is free and takes about two minutes. You verify your identity once with a government ID and a live selfie check. Your Anchor page then shows your real name, that the check passed, and which of your social accounts are really yours. Your ID stays private; buyers only see that you passed.

Then your post looks like this:

"Selling 2x [artist] [date], face value, transfer through Ticketmaster. Here's my Anchor so you know I'm real: getanchor.id/a/____"

Every scam account in the thread is a username. You are now a named person who has something to lose. That is the difference buyers are looking for, whether or not they know how to ask for it.

Protect yourself too

Sellers get scammed as well. The common ones: a payment screenshot that never actually clears; a "pay here" link that is not the real payment app; tickets transferred and then the payment disputed.

Ask buyers for their Anchor before you transfer anything. A real buyer can make one in about two minutes. Someone who wants your tickets but will not put their name next to the deal is telling you something.

Only release tickets once the money has actually landed in your account, not when a screenshot says it has. And transfer through the official app so there is a record of exactly what you sent and when.

Where to post it

Put your Anchor link in the listing itself, not just in DMs. Buyers decide whether to message you from the post. If a fan group or subreddit you sell in has rules about proof, ask the admins to add "post your Anchor with your offer" to them; it is free for their members.

What it will not do

It will not make your tickets valid; that is on you. It will not stop a buyer from being a scammer if you skip asking for their Anchor. It does not guarantee a sale. It makes you visibly real in a thread where the scam accounts are only usernames.