How to Tell a Counterfeit Super Bowl Ticket

For avid football fans, the Super Bowl is the event of the season. All regular-season games are played with high hopes for making it to the championship. Die-hard fans of any team that makes it to the Super Bowl will do just about anything and pay any price to attend the Super Bowl. As the game approaches, the average price for legitimate tickets increases, and can be sold for upward of $2,000 dollars per ticket. Out of desperation to see their team play, some fans end up getting scammed by Super Bowl ticket counterfeiters.

Instructions

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      Inspect the front and back of the ticket. The back of an authentic ticket with feature a two-tone hologram which changes as you change the angle of the ticket in sunlight. A fake Super Bowl ticket with have a sticker that is supposed to resemble the hologram, only the image on the fake sticker does not change.

    • 2

      Look at the front of the ticket and check for silver-embossed images. On an authentic ticket, these will be clear, crisp images on high-quality silver foil. On the fake tickets, these images with be blurry, asymmetrical and/or printed on cheap, thin silver foil stickers.

    • 3

      Feel the ticket. An authentic ticket will be printed on heavy card stock with flawless perforations on each edge of the ticket. A counterfeit ticket with be printed on much thinner stock and the perforations, if the ticket has any at all, will be inconsistent and may even be crooked.

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      Think back to where you bought the ticket, and how much you paid for it. If you purchased it through a reputable online site at a fair price, you probably have an authentic ticket. However, if you bought it from a street vendor or someone who only accepted cash, you may have a counterfeit ticket. In addition, if you got the ticket for a "too good to be true" price, it may very well be fake.