Hochul warns of Ticket fraudsters when Knick’s Stubs Price leaps

The Knicks may have dropped the ball on Wednesday – but their ticket sales are still slam dunks.

Despite an epic game 1 -choke -job, the fans are still so hot to get a place for the team against the Pacers, which is very expected, that stubs runs up to 3,000 US dollars per pop -a surprising sum that is ashamed of the ticket fraudsters in the mouth.

Knicks fans are only warned for just $ 577 only for steeping space dukats, only to buy from trustworthy new sales areas if you want to see the campaign in the Madison Square Garden personally.

The fans should stay away from random re -sellers and places such as Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace so as not to step with some false passes to see how the Knicks played for the first time in the final of the Eastern Conference, warned Governor Hochul on Tuesday.

“While the Knicks continue their incredible run, I understand that the excitement and pride fans feel all over New York – it is electrically,” said Hochul in an explanation.

“But I would like to remind everyone: don’t let this excitement make you a goal. Be careful when buying tickets and only use trustworthy sources. Fraudsters are out there and we will not use them from our fans.”

Republished tickets are particularly popular with occasional fans who want to climb the train -with companies such as Ticketmaster and Seatgeek as a top -Legitime seller.

From Tuesday afternoon, the cheapest single ticket on a legitimate platform costs a stunning $ 694.

The most expensive that the post was able to find on Thursday morning was a price for 3,025 US dollars, a price that fans could buy as close to the square as series 3 or in series 23.

Even selected nosebleed seats cost almost 1,000 US dollars.

If the knicks progress, the tickets will be listed a lot, much more early tickets for the NBA final with a shock-inducing $ 2,185, with further $ 200 service fees stacked at the top.

Seating at the Court of Justice for up to 105,000 US dollars is offered.

Knick’s fan first members are offered for the first seats at the first DIBS, although their team will play the game.

The astronomical prices already lead to desperate fans to fraudsters with suspicious low prices that pretend to be a ticket reversal seller and prompt Hochul to issue their urgent warning on Tuesday.

“Several” complaints on the Federal Trade Commission and the Internet Crime Complaint Center of the FBI have already been submitted by scalpers, which sold fake NBA tickets, said their post office.

The FTC has only received a formal complaint about fraudsters since the Knicks punched their final ticket from the Eastern Conference, but 12 symptoms were surprising last month.

Last year, the Federal Authority received 48 complaints about Knicks tickets, whereby fraudulent customers reported “Purchase of fake tickets on social media platforms, no tickets that they kept, and other problems with regard to ticket sales, including various problems with online individual dealers”.

The Hochul office asked the fans to follow these steps to avoid ticket fraud:

• Purchase of the event location or trustworthy providers;
• Avoid resellers on marketplaces such as Craigslist, Facebook Marketplace and other social media websites and scalpers that search the streets.
• Pay attention to fake services that imitate legitimate payment platforms in order to provide individuals to provide sensitive information or transmit funds.
• Check the seller before making a purchase.
• Consider using a credit card that offers fraud protection. And
• Pay attention to low prices: “If it looks too good to be true, it is probably a fraud,” said Hochul’s office.