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by cypherpunks01 1069 days ago
In the past for some time, Stubhub used a single Gmail box for routing certain transfers. I'd receive instructions to transfer to:

  Buyer: Firstname Lastname
  Email: mobiletransfertickets+12341234@gmail.com
With a different +number for different transactions, this happened numerous times in 2022 across multiple shows, so I think it was Stubhub, not an outside party. At other times, it'd have me transfer directly to the buyer's email address.

They probably moved away from the single Gmail address for some reason, over to their own domain names they control? I don't think it necessarily implies they are buying your tickets, just that they are routing the transfers through them possibly for verification.

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Wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't a team of people all logged into that gmail address manually verifying and forwarding tickets.

After all, processing PDF's and images of tickets forwarded from customers automatically and reliably is probably very hard.