Don't Post Requests to Buy/Sell Commencement Tickets. Bad things happen.

It's that time of the year when you figure out just how impossible it is to restrict the number of people coming to your graduation ceremony. It's a great time!

But here's the thing: Every year, the Commencement Committee (or whatever they're called) warns everyone to NOT create a market for commencement tickets. Do not buy/sell them.

http://apps.vcsa.uci.edu/commencement/#/welcome

Tickets for Commencement events are the property of the Regents of the University of California and the UC Irvine campus. They are complimentary and are not for sale or re-sale.

The Regents and the campus do not condone the buying or selling of tickets for graduation. Tickets can only be distributed at the discretion of the Regents and the UC Irvine campus.

In the past, the University has posted that they'd take your personal tickets away. Consider that even if they don't expressly state it here.

Here are the likely responses:

But they're my tickets! I can do what I want with them! Well, no. Not according to the contract/EULA you "sign".

What harm is done by buying/selling commencement tickets? By buying/selling, you're attributing a monetary value to the tickets which are EASILY counterfeited. When there's a profit motive and fraud is easy, you get people selling fake tickets which will result in your 12 aunts showing up and turned away for having fraudulent tickets OR your 12 aunts showing up with valid ticket and being turned away because the seats are filled with people who got fraudulent tickets.

So please. Don't buy/sell tickets. Or at the very least, don't do it online where you can get caught and potentially punished.