Is selling a sports book ticket on ebay legal?

This is just a hypothetical question, thinking about it but haven't done it. Let's say I place a $100 wager on the Los Angeles Dodgers (7/1) to win the World Series and I buy the ticket from a Nevada based casino. Could I then place the ticket on eBay and legally sell it possibly for more than I bought it for?
Here's ebays page addressing prohibited/restricted items .

DonDiego did not expect to see sports book ticket on the list, . . . and DonDiego was not disappointed.

But toward the upper right corner of the page ebay provides a button by which surf87 may submit a question on the matter, . . . possibly resulting in an answer superior to that he should expect on LVA.

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DonDiego has found a bet ticket for sale on ebay: Race Bet Ticket

Further searches suggest to poor old DonDiego that current active bet tickets are not available on ebay.

Reason suggests to poor old DonDiego that ebay could reasonably expect forgeries to become something of a nuisance.
I think surf87's question was whether such sales are illegal, not whether eBay tolerated such sales.

Maybe someone will have an answer for the question surf87 asked.
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Originally posted by: surf87
This is just a hypothetical question, thinking about it but haven't done it. Let's say I place a $100 wager on the Los Angeles Dodgers (7/1) to win the World Series and I buy the ticket from a Nevada based casino. Could I then place the ticket on eBay and legally sell it possibly for more than I bought it for?


I would have guessed that it was not legal, but then I found this:


Slipjockey

[Edit] This service would not use EBay.

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Originally posted by: Roulette Man

I would have guessed that it was not legal, but then I found this:
Slipjockey


DonDiego also came across Slipjockey, but slip jockey.com doesn't work, . . . and there appears to be no record beyond 2011 of anything having to do with Slipjockey.

Then DonDiego found TRANSACTION OF WAGERS THROUGH MEDIUMS OF COMMUNICATION within the Nevada Gaming Statute, specifically Section 465.091 and following

DonDiego suggests surf87's scheme is not legal.
It appears Slipjockey found out the hard way (lol). I don't think I want to follow suit. By the way I looked at eBay's prohibitive items and the closest related prohibitive item is lottery tickets. Nothing mentioned about sport books tickets but it must be prohibited.
I at one time placed a $55 bet on one team and then an $11 bet on the opposing team. I told the clerk I was making a bet for a friend. He told me he would ignore what I said, and that making bets for other people was illegal. I know this isn't the same exact situation, but in some ways it is.

Of course I know there are betting syndicates where they send runners to make very big bets at sports books. I don't believe that this is technically legal, but I don't think anything is done about it.
When scalping tickets on ebay was banned, people just sold you a baseball hat with the ticket included. They banned that also.
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Originally posted by: Roulette Man
Of course I know there are betting syndicates where they send runners to make very big bets at sports books. I don't believe that this is technically legal, but I don't think anything is done about it.
RouletteMan is technically correct.

As the Las Vegas Review Journal reported a few years ago the Nevada statute "doesn't apply to typical bettors who run wagers for the gang at the office or local sports bar. It's intended for professional groups.
What we are concerned about are those runners who are working for illegal bookmakers, either here or throughout the country, who are being paid to facilitate the illegal bookmaking. That's the reason the illegal messenger betting statute was created in the first place."

And the Feds, . . . in the form of IRS agents, . . . are after big-time tax-evaders and money-launderers and can apply Federal felony charges, or use the threat of such charges, against the runners to get their help in getting the big boys.


I've heard that a lot of people will be going to the Belmont and placing several hundred dollars worth of $2 win tickets on California Chrome to sell on Ebay should the horse win the Triple Crown. Stories have been floating around that this has happened every year a horse wins the first two legs.

Ray
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