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TicketsNow.com scams Houston Personal Trainer and she is MAD! |
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 Have
you ever gotten scammed buying something on the internet? Well even
though I know I'm blonde and a personal trainer here in Houston Texas, I
AM smart (which may seem like an oxymoron) and up until recently I have
had only good experiences with my relatively few internet purchases.
Unfortunately however I too have now been scammed when buying some
baseball tickets for the Houston Astro's Opening day game in Houston
Minute Maid park by an disreputable site called TICKETSNOW.com. DO NOT
BUY ANY TICKETS FROM THIS SITE. How did they get this Houston Personal Trainer's four hundred
dollars for two Houston Astro's baseball opening day tickets you might
be wondering? (Yes I paid 393.95 for two tickets to be exact but the cost is not what
the issue is here even though the price is outrageous) Here is what to
watch for based on my PERSONAL experience. I went to the site on Dec.
21 to purchase baseball tickets as a Christmas gift. The site
advertises tickets that they DON'T actually have but they don't TELL
you that..instead when you select your Houston Astros baseball
tickets from the limited selection they post (to make you think you are
getting the very last best baseball seats available) ..you are then
allowed to select to have additional fees charged to your credit card
in order to get faster, next day delivery (which they tell you will
arrive by 4:30 the following day and must be signed for in order to be
delivered.) WHAT THEY DON'T tell you is that these Houston Astro
opening day tickets that you are paying extra to have delivered the
next day..are not even in their possession and that the ACTUAL delivery
date can be MONTHS away because they are not going to ship the tickets
until they have secured them..so you really are paying to get your
tickets the speedy way of three months and a day instead of the slow
way of three months and three days (sarcasm in case you missed that)!
Who in their right mind would pay for next day delivery on a ticket
they can't even get for three months. It is this Houston Personal Trainer's belief that these
shipping fees are posted on the scamming TICKETSNOW.com website to
mislead the buyer into thinking the tickets will arrive immediately so
that the buyer will be more likely to purchase the tickets. IN
ADDITION, the only other button that shows up on the site once you have
selected to pay more for shipping is the GIGANTIC RED purchase now
button. This unscrupulous site ticketsnow.com does not tell you that when you click
the purchase now button..you are finalizing your purchase and will
immediately be charged for the tickets..it does not require that you
read any terms and conditions but once you purchase the tickets you are
forced to be subject to these terms and conditions anyway. When
contacted directly, This company refused to refund the money paid..even
though the tickets are still MIA as of 2 1/2 months later, and says
that the hyper link (in tiny print in a separate click on
the website ) of the terms and conditions, is a satisfactory way of
informing prospective buyers of the pitfalls they are about to
encounter. This is fraud by TICKETSNOW.com because as a business owner
myself, I never assume a client knows what they are getting for their
money until they have read, initaled..(or in this case CLICKED THE HYPER LINK) and agreed based on full disclosure. This company is hiding
its full disclosure in a hyper link and not requiring it to be clicked
as part of the purchase because this way they get more sales because
consumers are conveniently unaware the delay in availability. Here is
my message to you Ticketsnow.com.. Dishonesty never pays..what goes
around comes around..and be looking for my complaint filed against you
with the BBB online as well as the state attorney generals office. I
hope my four hundred dollars was worth it to you!. (Photo of Houston
Personal Trainer Melissa smiling after she takes action against
scamming website TICKETSNOW.com)
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Last Updated ( Monday, 22 October 2007 )
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