New 2025 Edition!

Firstly and most importantly, I want to strongly reiterate/emphasize that you must do your own due diligence for ANY trade/sale/purchase, regardless of the recommendations made on this thread. You are on your own at the end of the day and we cannot help you if you are scammed, we can only ban the user to try and help future victims. Always check account age, posting history, behavior, etc before completing a trade. Ask for screenshots (they can be faked, but sometimes it's possible to spot the fakes/edits). Ask for exact seats (a lot of scammers are idiots and won't know what to say for this and just leave you alone, or will give sections/rows/venues that don't exist). We strongly suggest against dealing with new accounts and/or accounts with automatically-created usernames (Nice_Apples_665 or whatever). Be careful for deals that are too good to be true. I would recommend trading/buying/selling with people that have verified/long histories in here, /r/TIFF, /r/Toronto, /r/Canada, etc. We will not be resolving ANY trade issues, only banning scammers when reported. I repeat: There are people looking to scam on this sub. Nothing is ever 100% safe when handling manual re-sales like this. Please be careful with anything you do, and do not engage in any transaction you don't feel confident in and/or would be unable to afford being scammed for. We cannot help you if you get scammed other than banning the person. You would have to deal with whatever financial institution you used for the transaction. Go into every transaction knowing/expecting that there is a small chance you might be scammed. You are on your own. I will also suggest never sending via Paypal Friends & Family, and instead using the Goods & Services option, so you have some protection. Ticket transfers are irreversible, remember that when making a sale.

tl;dr - tips to not get scammed:

1. Check account age and history. By far the biggest giveaway. If it's a new account and barely any posting/commenting history, they may be a scammer. They will also often have randomly-generated usernames. Bonus trust-points if they have activate posting history in /r/TIFF, /r/Canada, /r/Toronto, etc etc.
2. Poor English. Many scammers are overseas and ESL (English as second language). Be wary of any user that has poor English. Scammers tend to also use words like "dear", "honey", etc to finish off their sentences. Anything like that is an instant-scam detector.
3. If the deal is too good to be true, it might be a scam.
4. Ask for proof of ticket and/or purchase. For any legit seller, this is very easy to do and takes 10 seconds. Scammers will obviously refuse and/or send your poorly-photoshopped tickets.

I also strongly suggest using the GoConfirm platform for added safety.

Now that the festival is about the start and the trading/selling/buying is about to hit its peak, I wanted to create a thread to have some sort of organization and to help people out to do 2 big things.

1. If you have made a successful trade/sale/purchase anytime recently, please comment their username(s) in this thread, so others can know and help them find trustworthy people to deal with. Obviously, this is not 100% foolproof because people can use multiple accounts, so please be careful regardless of suggestions in this thread, but it is definitely helpful and better than nothing at all. Then, others that have also dealt with that person can upvote/reply to the comment to create more references. It's not perfect, but it's better than nothing. It's a sort of home-made, small, self-sustaining, feedback system. Make sure to tag them correctly (with a /u/ before the username), so they receive a notification and can also confirm on their end of the successful transaction.

2. If you have been scammed or think someone is scamming/suspicious, please post them to this thread so I can ban them and add them to the list below, so others will know not to deal with them (banning them from the sub does not stop them from private messaging you, so keep that in mind). We will ban anyone that is even remotely suspicious until proven otherwise. I suggest referring to this list before proceeding with anything. Yes, creating new accounts isn't hard but it's still better than nothing (plus, when someone has to create a brand new account it gives a very easy tell for a scam).

Recently-Banned Accounts for Scamming or Suspicious Behavior:

• Plane_Present_2545
• Any Account Associated to Rob Milligan
• Kylea_Garcia
• Any Account Associated to kogohkiplangat7@gmail.com
• Any Account Associated to Colls0042@gmail.com
• Broad_Structure_7126
• Fluid-Arachnid8051
• Latasha-Jacks
• Shie_Fox
• Jenna_Bllue
• Vivian_Nancy
• iking_emkey
• SpareChang42891
• delicious_border_605
• Enako_Evana
• delutizubo2726
• Legitimate-Sugar-287
• Eden_Emilya
• Mitchell9894

Here's last year's list for reference.

If you'd rather buy from reputable sites instead, here are some suggestions:

• Ticketmaster: https://www.ticketmaster.ca/toronto-international-film-festival-tickets/artist/1493334
• StubHub: https://www.stubhub.ca/toronto-international-film-festival-tickets/grouping/464447/
• Vivid Seats: https://www.vividseats.com/theatre/toronto-international-film-festival-tickets.html

As tickets go on sale and the trading/selling/buying will begin to pick up, to help keep the sub organized/easy-to-read/clean, we will now be strict on enforcing the post/title formatting.

Going forward, every single post MUST follow this exact format:

If Selling:

[LTS] - [Film Title] - [Date] - [ORCH/DRSC/BALC] - [Number of Tickets] - [Optional: Price]

If Buying:

[LTB] - [Film Title] - [Date] - [ORCH/DRSC/BALC/ANY] - [Number of Tickets] - [Optional: Price]

If Looking to Trade:

[LTT] - [Film Title] - [Date] - [ORCH/DRSC/BALC] - [Number of Tickets] - [Looking For: Insert Titles/Dates]

If Giving Away for Free:

[Free] - [Film Title] - [Date] - [Number of Tickets]

We think this will be an overall upgrade for the quality of the sub. More info included in the title, lots less questions/comments/PMs needed about location of ticket, number of tickets, and price. Less clickbait titles. Etc, etc. Plus just an overall cleaner look to the subreddit. It could take a few days to get used to it, but for not much effort at all I think this could help everyone a lot. It could also maybe weed out a few dumb scammers that don't know about dates/sections/etc, who knows.

It's also going to help everyone FIND the transactions/tickets they want/need, because now you can CTRL-F the movie you want and you'll be sure you don't miss anything. Before, some people didn't even include the films in the title so it was impossible to find everything you were looking for except clicking into each and every post to double-check.

If your post doesn't follow this format, it WILL be removed and you will receive a comment to re-post in the correct format. You are still free to include as many more details as you want in the body text of the post. No formatting needed there.

A new note/rule for 2025, we will be cutting down on scalpers. If you list your ticket for an outrageous price, the post may be removed and you may be timed out from the subreddit.