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Profiteers already out selling Fenway skating tickets
By adamg on Sat, 12/19/2009 - 12:46pm
$200 for one ticket! Posted at 11:36 a.m. A real generous soul who scooped up four tickets is offering his for just $100 apiece and provides this photo to prove he really has them in hand:
He adds:
This is a sold out event. I was trying to get tickets for January 10th, however I was told that they only had a random batch of tickets and the only available tickets at the time were for January 3rd, 2010. I didn't want to walk away empty handed (I waited for 3 hours in the arctic tundra), so I have 4 tickets that my family and I can not go to.
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Comments
no class!
The whole point of this was that all kids could get a chance to skate at Fenway, not just the ones with Mommies and Daddies willing and able to shell out big bucks. What a Grinch!
Cry Me A River
Should have got there earlier then. Must be used to hand-outs.
I'd hope mumbles gets the BPD
I'd hope mumbles gets the BPD on this and fast. These are free tickets, so there should be no resale value and asking for $100 should break quite a few blue laws on ticket scalping.
Time to bust some of these Grinches skulls for their opportunistic thievery. These people are everything that's wrong with our culture.
hey scalper, City Hall is on to you
They're going after you, scumbag!
Yeah, little Johnny the five year old should have gotten there earlier... what a Scrooge!
flag them on cragslist
It may not work, but flag them as prohibited, since the tickets are non-transferable it is an illegal transaction.
A mensch
Only $20, under the oxymoronic headline: "Fenway Free Skate tix - $20 (Boston)"
lines suck and are stupid.
The city should have advertised a lottery last month and then just picked people and then called them or mailed them telling them they won.
I don't feel bad for anyone that waits in a line for something like this.
ID check?
There's a craigslist post that says
For those who waited in line and scored tickets this morning, was this the case? If so, sounds like the scalpers -- or actually, the scalpers' customers -- will be SOL when they try to enter the ballpark.
Nope
I did not have to give any information aside from flashing my ID - no information was recorded. Just showed my ID and was handed tickets.
DID have to provide ID and phone number at my location
ID, address, phone number and email were recorded at my location. Only a few people got to the location very early (pre 7 am), about 20 between 7 and 8, then more and more after that. Hordes of people were inside the center at 9, most with little chance at tickets because of their late arrival.