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Does anyone sell their Hamilton lottery seats?

ffranny
#1Does anyone sell their Hamilton lottery seats?
Posted: 10/8/15 at 5:21pm

If a person wins one of the lottery seats and needs the money more than the experience (perhaps they've already seen the show?), is it allowed for them to sell that seat? Has anyone done it that you know of? 

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anmiller07
#2Does anyone sell their Hamilton lottery seats?
Posted: 10/8/15 at 5:23pm

Don't they put wristbands on the lotto winners or something to prevent this?

ffranny
#3Does anyone sell their Hamilton lottery seats?
Posted: 10/8/15 at 5:27pm

anmiller07: I don't know, but that would make sense. I'm looking for answers from someone who has gone through the process and knows first-hand. I'd be willing to pay considerably more than $10 to see the show, but considerably less than the secondary market prices -- so if I don't win the seats myself and it's allowed, I'd like to have that information. And if it's not, then I'd want to know that so as not to do anything inappropriate/illegal.

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haterobics
#4Does anyone sell their Hamilton lottery seats?
Posted: 10/8/15 at 5:29pm

Yeah, you get a wristband put on you when you purchase the ticket and it's not transferable. If you don't want the "experience," don't enter the lotto. Does anyone sell their Hamilton lottery seats?

ffranny
#5Does anyone sell their Hamilton lottery seats?
Posted: 10/8/15 at 5:31pm

haterobics: Thanks for the info. 

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haterobics
#6Does anyone sell their Hamilton lottery seats?
Posted: 10/8/15 at 5:41pm

Usually, if people are single, they find another single person entering the lotto and double their odds. If I win, you can go. If you win, I can go. But in any case, the other person gets in for the actual cost.

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nicnyc
#7Does anyone sell their Hamilton lottery seats?
Posted: 10/8/15 at 5:46pm

Yes, there are measures to prevent the tix from being resold. There are bracelets - tix are not transferable. My boyfriend enters the lottery every day - and we actually won once. We've also paid for tix at the Public and twice on Broadway (so far - we already bought three more sets of tix because we are addicted.)  The show has gone to great lengths to prevent lottery tickets from being scalped - it's very important to them.  Clearly, the show could sell those tickets every night for a lot of money - and they choose to do a $10 lotto instead.  What they are doing is very generous (I don't know of another show that has lotto tix that cheap), I think it would be nice if everyone respected their wishes and the spirit of what is being offered.

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macnyc
#8Does anyone sell their Hamilton lottery seats?
Posted: 10/8/15 at 5:50pm

Very well spoken, nicnyc!

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nicnyc
#9Does anyone sell their Hamilton lottery seats?
Posted: 10/8/15 at 5:59pm

Thank you, macnyc - appreciate it.

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GreasedLightning
#10Does anyone sell their Hamilton lottery seats?
Posted: 10/8/15 at 6:03pm

I don't know a single person who would need that $10 more than the experience, in reference to the OP's inference that someone may "need the money more than the experience." 

Even friends of mine who DONT have the $10 to their name would find $10 if they won. Oh yes they would. 

UnwoundFantasies
#11Does anyone sell their Hamilton lottery seats?
Posted: 10/8/15 at 6:05pm

I wouldn't sell it, but I actually won a few weeks ago. They gave me a wristband but they didn't do anything for my +1. I easily could've sold it if I had wanted to. 

ffranny
#12Does anyone sell their Hamilton lottery seats?
Posted: 10/8/15 at 6:43pm

Thanks for all the replies, everyone. I did not mean to offend anyone by my question -- I asked specifically so I could avoid violating any official or unofficial norms. And I definitely didn't mean to suggest than anyone would deliberately enter the lottery for the purpose of scalping their winning tickets -- I only wondered if, given the opportunity, whether such a transaction was possible and/or allowed. 

Now, since I have absolutely no luck with lotteries or other games of chance, can anyone say from firsthand experience what the likelihood might be of getting unclaimed will-call tickets at curtain time? My husband and I did manage to pick up such tickets for the very last, and officially sold out performance of "Fool Moon" sometime during the last century.

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anmiller07
#13Does anyone sell their Hamilton lottery seats?
Posted: 10/8/15 at 7:04pm

Does anyone sell their Hamilton lottery seats?This is what the lottery looked like last night (on a Wednesday). All these people will be trying to get tickets from cancellation of they don't win as well, so I'd say pretty slim. 

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haterobics
#14Does anyone sell their Hamilton lottery seats?
Posted: 10/8/15 at 7:25pm

I think people are in the cancellation line WAY before most lottery people show up. Post-lottery, I doubt that is a real option unless you've been in line for a while already...

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MrSweetNAwful
#15Does anyone sell their Hamilton lottery seats?
Posted: 10/8/15 at 7:25pm

anmiller07 said: "Does anyone sell their Hamilton lottery seats?This is what the lottery looked like last night (on a Wednesday). All these people will be trying to get tickets from cancellation of they don't win as well, so I'd say pretty slim. 

 

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ffranny
#16Does anyone sell their Hamilton lottery seats?
Posted: 10/8/15 at 9:21pm

Ooooo...kay. So much for that idea. Thanks for the reality check.

KathyNYC2
#17Does anyone sell their Hamilton lottery seats?
Posted: 10/8/15 at 9:30pm

If the show you are seeing HAS a cancellation line as well as a lottery, you have to pretty much forgo the lottery and get on the cancellation line right away and as early as possible.. And of course, you have to be willing to spend $$ as you don't know what seats might become available.

I recently waited on a cancellation line at Fun Home and I waited close to 3 hours and there were quite a few tickets that were offered... but not everyone who waited got one.  All of us who were there for a long while got tickets..  (note. they only have a digital lottery and their standing room was already sold out.)

ffranny
#18Does anyone sell their Hamilton lottery seats?
Posted: 10/8/15 at 9:37pm

Good to know. In our case, I think we'd be willing to pay face value for cancellation tickets, but probably not to spend three of our precious few hours in NYC waiting for them -- we'd rather be out enjoying the city. We usually plan our trips farther in advance (including buying theatre tickets) than we did this time. That'll teach us.

ChiTheaterFan
#19Does anyone sell their Hamilton lottery seats?
Posted: 10/8/15 at 9:40pm

I don't know if it's changed since the move to Broadway but at the public you did not have to forego the cancellation line to play the lottery. They distributed and collected lottery tickets from the cancellation line so you could do both. Everyone in the cancellation line is there FAR before the lottery though, so you couldn't simply join after losing the lottery--the line would already be long. This is consistent with my experience from other shows, although I've heard of others that make you pick between the two. (In which case just go with 2 people--one wait in the cancellation line and one play the lotto.)

 

I'm pretty sure Hamilton does have a cancellation line because there were people waiting in a line across from the box office even as we entered the show the last time I went. Sure looked like a cancellation line. 

ChiTheaterFan
#20Does anyone sell their Hamilton lottery seats?
Posted: 10/8/15 at 9:41pm

For what it's worth I waited 5 hours at the public. And it's probably certainly not SHORTER now.