The Internet has opened up many different avenues for you to find cheap tickets to sporting events. The original auction site, Ebay , has a ticket category where you can find tickets to baseball, football, basketball, and concert events on a daily basis. There are also sites like Stubhub.com that offer fans a way to resell their tickets. Online sites give you the ability to purchase cheap sporting event tickets.

There are a few things to remember. While sites like StubHub and Ebay have enforced rules, you can still get cheated. You should never agree to send money orders unless the purchase occurs through the site. As soon as the seller wants to take the sale away from the site, sending requests through email and the like, then you should walk away. You can save yourself a lot of money and trouble by reviewing the seller’s feedback as well.

Many sporting events become hot ticket items, which bring out scammers in droves. They frequent sports messageboards and other sites where users request tickets, looking for ways to steal your hard earned money. Be wary of unsolicited emails and shady business deals for those hard to find tickets. In these cases, the old saying stands true — if it sounds too good to be true, then it probably is.

If you stick to the following basic tenets of online shopping, then you can save yourself money on sporting event tickets and not lose anything to the charlatans.

1. Always perform transactions through the auction site, not via email.
2. Check seller feedback ratings to ensure you’re buying from an honest party.
3. Never give out personal information through email.

The online sites can net you quick savings on event tickets for your whole family. Whether you’re looking to watch a baseball game or see a Broadway show, StubHub and Ebay should be a viable alternative to the traditional Ticketmaster and organizational sites.