I’d like to go support my favorite soccer 
team, St. Louis City SC, at a home game. But for reasons that I shan’t get into here, I want to shell out the extra money and buy a primo seat - like the kind where you can sit outside in an extra large (compared to where the hoi polloi sit) seat, or go inside the climate controlled lounge and get free drinks, etc. Call it a luxury box, or a hospitality suite, or whatever you call it.
So I was on the phone with a very nice fella from City’s Hospitality department, and he explained to me that these tickets aren’t sold individually— one must purchase them in bulk, for parties, corporate events, etc. He also said that they police Stubhub and Seatgeek for hospitality tickets being resold. Except there are hospitality tickets aplenty for sale on both sites.
If I bought such a ticket, could the team nullify it because I bought it on the secondary market? Will the seller (or website) like send a QR code to my phone number? And also, assuming I’m buying from someone who couldn’t make it to the corporate event, could the corporation itself evict me from their event?
People and corporations sell and give away primo seats all the time. No one cares, because if people cannot use the tickets for various reasons its better to have someone there who will likely spend money at the venue on overpriced food and team wear. All the venue cars about is that you have a valid ticket to be where you are.
His job is to sell the luxury seats and it’s true that he can only sell them to groups. He wants to make a sale so he’s not going to tell you that you can buy a seat on the secondary market.
The company I work for used to own a luxury box and they gave tickets to employees sometimes. When I went I was usually there with a group of people I didn’t know. It’s very possible that some of them didn’t work for the company. I didn’t know and the people checking tickets definitely didn’t know.
I have attended hundreds of games in skyboxes in 1995-2002. Most of them I was the designated “host” who communicated with the team staff on behalf of my employer. My employer had the season ticket to the boxes. This included both MLB and NFL games.
If we gave a ticket to a client and the client didn’t show up and instead some random person did, we would absolutely kick them out. This was before cell phones were commonplace. If the people who showed up were the son and daughter in law of the client (same last name) I’d be okay with them getting in. But a guy who said he was a golfing buddy of the client, nope. The client would be getting an email from us the next business day reminding them that selling or giving away tickets was not allowed.
We were responsible for the behavior of the guests in the suite/box. If anyone got out of hand we could lose our “subscription”
This was much more strict for NFL games.
For MLB many times the tickets were given to employees. Either one department or sometimes even to anyone who asked at the reception desk. There would be a host, but they would be a lot less stringent about who got in. For that particular team for weeknight or weekday afternoon games there was no real secondary market for tickets in those days.
If it was a clients only game (either the Yankees coming in or a weekend game usually) the same rules would apply as for an NFL game.
Things may be different now.
The short answer to the OP is that there is no one answer; it undoubtedly depends on the policies of the league, the team, and the organization or person who has the subscription to the luxury box or bought the tickets originally (if the box/suite tickets aren’t held directly by the team).
It sounds like the team in the OP’s question frowns on resale of their complimentary and hospitality tickets, but it also sounds like “they police Stubhub and Seatgeek for hospitality tickets” may be a threat more than an actual policy that the team engages in on a regular basis, given that the OP found such tickets for sale online.
Entirely possible, if they can find out that you bought it on the secondary market. What is unknown here is whether the contract which “owners” of such hospitality tickets explicitly prohibits them from being resold.
Depends, but it’d likely be some sort of electronic ticket information, sent to either your phone or email, which, yeah, ultimately will lead to you having a QR code or bar code to be scanned from your phone at the stadium entrance.
Potentially, yeah, as @Mighty_Mouse noted. If the ticket you bought wound up being for a corporate event (rather than, say, some charity fundraiser), entirely possible that, as no one recognizes you sitting amongst a group of co-workers, they’d look to have you tossed.
I have season tickets (not a luxury box) for the Green Bay Packers, and this is consistent with that team’s policy. I’m allowed to re-sell my tickets, but if the guy who’s using one of my tickets gets into trouble, and gets evicted from the stadium, it’s within the Packers’ rights to strip my season ticket subscription from me.