Things happen, and sometimes people need to sell the tickets they’ve purchased for a gig on to someone else. However, we all know that many of the people selling tickets aren’t honest. How do you tell the fakes from the genuine ticket sellers? Tixel is making things easier with their new website Ticket Sheriff.
Simply enter the username of the ticket seller you intend purchasing from into Ticket Sheriff to see whether he or she has been busted doing dodgy deals in the past. You can also use Ticket Sheriff to report ticket scammers.
This is a real passion project for the Tixel team, whose founders Zac Leigh and Jason Webb were duped into buying counterfeit Tame Impala tickets back in 2015. When the show sold out, they thought they’d found a fairly honest bloke selling some tickets via Gumtree. Upon arrival, those $400 tickets wouldn’t scan and they realised they’d been scammed. Determined they wanted to protect others from a similar fate, they launched Tixel, a legitimate ticket resale site. In 2018, the site sold zero fake tickets, ensuring no music lovers were left out of pocket. That same year the company partnered with leading events like Beyond the Valley, FOMO, and Rhythm and Vines.
Tixel are a 100% Australian made company doing good for music fans. Now with the launch of Ticket Sheriff, they’re taking even greater steps towards stamping out scammers once and for all. Spread the word!