Comic-Con in San Diego commences in 41 days and tickets to it have been sold out since…well, an hour or so after they went on sale, whenever that was. It's amazing how swiftly that event sells out every year and unlike some other conventions, it isn't because they advertise super-duper superstar guests. Comic-Con sells out immediately without announcing or advertising anyone who'll be appearing or signing things there. The event itself is the thing.
It has come to my attention that some folks who did score tickets to the convention are presently trying to resell them for a considerable profit on Stubhub and other online services that traffic in marked-up tickets, mainly to concerts, plays and sporting events. I just looked through about a half-dozen of these sites and saw a wide range of prices. This was by no means a carefully-researched study but the cheapest asking price I saw for a four-day admission to the con was $749. That's for one ticket.
The highest I saw was $2400 and change — and I wonder if anyone is paying that price now. I can understand why someone might think the $2400 tickets to an Adele concert or the Super Bowl might be more desirable than the $749 ones due to seating placement but a ticket to Comic-Con just gets you in the door with no guarantee you'll get into any event or be able to sit down anywhere, restrooms included.
And if you buy it from a scalper site, it might not even get you in the door. The convention takes the position that tickets are non-transferable and I've heard that in the past, people have been refused admission. I don't know much about this. The old Comic-Con website, which was very simple to navigate and loaded with info, explained it but the new website — which is neither of those things — has vaguer language…I think. Maybe there's something there I couldn't find.
In any case, if I bought a ticket through a third-party seller, I sure wouldn't be shocked to get there and find out that it wasn't real or wasn't valid. Traveling to San Diego…booking and paying for a hotel room…then getting to the con and discovering your passes aren't good…that sounds like a real good way to not have a good time. You might as well cosplay as a giant Tootsie Roll Pop so you can be the biggest sucker in town that day.