How to Resell Tickets on Ticketmaster and StubHub (Legally)

To resell tickets on Ticketmaster, sign in, open My Tickets, choose the event, press Sell, set your price and add your payout details. Listing is free, a seller fee comes out only if the tickets sell, and the event organizer decides whether resale is allowed at all and at what prices.

StubHub works in a similar way for tickets bought elsewhere. This guide covers the steps on both, what they charge, when you actually get paid, and the federal and state ticket laws to check before you try to flip tickets for profit.

How do you resell tickets on Ticketmaster?

You resell tickets on Ticketmaster from inside your own account, and only if the event allows it. Ticketmaster's sell page lists five steps:

1. Sign in and open My Tickets, then select the event.
2. Press Sell. If there is no Sell button, resale isn't available for that event or ticket type.
3. Select and price the tickets you want to sell.
4. Tell Ticketmaster how you want to be paid. Add a bank account or debit card and your Seller Tax Details.
5. Review the listing and confirm, or accept an offer if one is shown.

When the tickets sell, they transfer to the buyer inside Ticketmaster's system. Until then, they're still yours to use.

Who decides whether you can resell?

Ticketmaster says the artist, team or event organizer sets the terms for how their tickets are sold and resold. Some events set minimum and maximum prices, and some ticket types can't be resold at all, including certain VIP, commemorative, will-call and charity tickets.

What is Face Value Exchange?

Face Value Exchange is a Ticketmaster resale option that some artists choose to fight scalping. The resale price is locked at the total you originally paid, including fees and taxes, and you can't change it. It's free for sellers, which makes it a good way to recover your money, not to make a profit.

If you're new to buying low and selling high in general, our beginner's guide to reselling for profit explains the sourcing and pricing habits that matter far more than any single platform.

What does Ticketmaster charge sellers, and when do you get paid?

Ticketmaster doesn't publish a single seller fee percentage. As of 2026, creating a listing is free, and a seller fee is collected from the total selling price only when your tickets sell. You see the fee and your payout before you confirm, so read that number, not the list price.

The payout comes after the event, not after the sale. Ticketmaster says it typically sends payouts within 7 business days after the event, as long as you have:

• a valid payout method (for US events, a US bank account),
• completed Seller Tax Details, which validate your SSN or ITIN, and
• verified the two small test deposits Ticketmaster sends to a new bank account.

That delay matters. If you sell tickets for a show three months away, your money is tied up for more than three months.

How does selling on StubHub compare?

StubHub is a resale marketplace, so it lists tickets for events sold through many ticketing companies, not only Ticketmaster. As of 2026, listing is free and StubHub takes a sell fee when your tickets sell. StubHub says there is no set percentage: the fee adjusts with the ticket price, the time left before the event, event updates, and supply and demand. Your payout after the fee is shown on the Set Your Price page before you list.

StubHub says that if you deliver tickets on time and as promised, the sell fee is the only fee you pay. Payouts typically arrive within 8 business days after the event, by bank transfer or PayPal.

Buyers also pay their own fees on top of your price on both sites, so the price a buyer sees is higher than what you listed.

Is reselling tickets legal?

Reselling tickets you bought for yourself is legal in most of the US. What's illegal is getting tickets by breaking the rules, and some states regulate resale further. If you want the bigger picture beyond tickets, our guide to whether reselling is legal covers brands, counterfeits and the first-sale rule.

The federal BOTS Act

The Better Online Ticket Sales (BOTS) Act was enacted in 2016. The FTC explains that it bans getting around the security measures and access controls ticket sellers use to enforce posted ticket limits, and bans selling tickets obtained that way if you took part in it, controlled it or should have known about it. It covers events at venues with more than 200 seats.

The FTC does enforce it. In 2025, in a case announced that August, it sued a Maryland ticket broker operation, alleging it used thousands of fake and purchased Ticketmaster accounts, spoofed IP addresses and SIM boxes to buy at least 379,776 tickets for nearly $57 million and resell them for about $64 million. The court will decide the case.

Ticketmaster's own purchase policy also forbids using multiple accounts to exceed ticket limits, and says it can cancel orders that break them.

State laws vary

States add their own rules. Two examples:

• New York. The state's Arts and Cultural Affairs Law requires a license from the Department of State to be in the business of reselling tickets, with a $5,000 annual fee. It also bans reselling within 1,500 feet of venues with more than 5,000 permanent seats, except in areas the venue designates.
• Minnesota. A law in effect since January 1, 2025 requires all-in pricing, bans speculative ticket sales (selling tickets you don't have yet) and requires online ticket marketplaces to disclose that they are resellers.

Laws like these change often, so check your state attorney general or consumer protection office, and the state where the event takes place, before reselling more than a pair of tickets you can't use.

Can you make money reselling tickets?

You can, but it is one of the riskiest kinds of flipping. Many tickets resell for less than you paid, because the organizer caps the price, demand drops, or too many people list for the same show.

Example (hypothetical): you paid $120 for a concert ticket, fees included, and list it at $160. If the seller fee shown at listing were $16, your payout would be $144, a $24 profit, paid a week or more after the concert. If demand falls and you cut the price to $130 to sell it, your payout drops to roughly what you paid. If it doesn't sell, you either go or lose the $120.

The risks that decide the outcome:

• Price caps and Face Value Exchange remove the upside on many of the most popular shows.
• Fees on both sides. The buyer's fees push the final price up, so you often need to list close to or under face value to compete.
• Unsold tickets lose all value once the event starts. That's harsher than an unsold jacket you can relist next season.
• Cash flow. Your money comes back only after the event.
• Account risk. Buying more than the ticket limit can get orders cancelled.

These are the same unsold-inventory and fee problems we break down in how much you can make flipping, only faster and with a hard deadline.

How do you avoid ticket resale scams?

Keep every step inside the platform. A sale made through Ticketmaster or StubHub transfers the tickets and the money through their systems; a sale arranged by direct message doesn't.

• Never accept payment outside the platform for tickets listed there, and never send tickets before you're paid.
• Don't buy tickets from strangers to resell. Screenshots and paper copies can be fakes or duplicates.
• Ignore "buyers" who want your login. A real buyer never needs your account password; the platform handles the transfer.
• Keep records of what you paid and what you received, for taxes and for any dispute.

The broader mistakes that cost resellers money, from overpaying to skipping the fee math, are in our list of common flipping mistakes.

Next steps

If you have tickets you can't use, list them on the platform where they live, check the payout after fees, and price to sell before the event. If you're thinking about ticket flipping as a side income, start with items that don't expire at showtime.

• Our step-by-step guide to flipping and reselling shows how to source, price and sell everyday items with less deadline risk.
• Read is reselling legal before you buy anything to resell in volume.

For other ways to earn, see our guide to making money online.