A ticketing agreement — the sale of admission to a tournament, concert or match through an operator or distributor — rests in Georgia on the general norms of sale, with one additional rule: where a time is fixed, performance cannot be demanded before it — the event's date is the contract's own temporal boundary. On this page we explain how five norms build the ticketing relationship — from the concept of sale to the presumption of acceptance and the fitness period.
The Concept of Sale and the Ban on Early Demands
By the contract of sale the seller must transfer to the buyer the right of ownership in the property, the documents connected with it and deliver the goods; the buyer must pay the agreed price and accept the purchase. Translated to a ticket: the operator buys the right of admission and passes it to the consumer; where the price is not directly indicated, the parties may agree on means of determining it. The time norm is decisive here: where a time is determined, in case of doubt the creditor may not demand performance before that time, while the debtor may perform the obligation before the term — no one can demand "performance" before the day of the event, and the organizer may perform early. In a ticketing contract this norm frames postponement disputes as well: the new date of a postponed event is a new term, and before it the buyer cannot demand anything from the organizer — unless the contract provides otherwise.