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By adamg on Tue, 10/23/2007 - 9:17pm
Patriots season-ticket holders who might have their tickets taken away now that the Patriots can get their names from StubHub get no sympathy from Angela:
... If you want to sell your tickets, fine. If you want to sell your tickets for well above the face value, fine. But don't get upset when you get in trouble for doing so. Don't try and make yourself look like the good guy being picked on by the giant. It's illegal and it's unfair to people who want to go to games but aren't lucky enough to have season tickets and rich enough to afford your ridiculous markup. ...
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AMEN! Scalpers will give you
AMEN!
Scalpers will give you some BS about market's, supply and demand, and other such nonsense, but in reality they're colluding to force prices on fans.
True demand might be high, and supply low, but venues and teams are monopolies. To make up for this they sell tickets at a fair market value that will give them profits, while allowing people to attend their events.
Scalpers screw up the supply by buying up 90% of the tickets, then sell back to you at huge margins. You have to pay their prices, because now they are the monopoly/oligopoly.
I've tried bargaining with a scalper for tickets to a sox game 1/3 way through, only told that he would only sell tickets for a ridiculous amount, 100% marked up. I would only pay a 50% mark up. He told me he will just rip the tickets up when he was leaving, and sure enough by the sixth inning I saw him rip up 20 or so sox tickets and throw them out, as his day was over. Sad thing is, he still made a profit.
Scalping should be outlawed...made illegal.
The above-mentioned quote from your post is absolutely spot on!!
It's absolutely and totally disgraceful that these parasites are allowed to rip the public off like that by making humongous profits off of people who're desperate to get into a game, concert or whatever. If more people would rise up and condemn this sort of exploitation of people's emotions by this kind of tactic, the scalping would stop.
Frankly, imho, scalping should be outlawed.....now!!
Can I borrow that violin?
Because I think whining about people reselling their tickets needs an accompaniment, too. First off, its NOT illegal. Not for the ticket holders to sell individual seats. State law forbids being in the business of reselling tickets. One individual selling a ticket isn't a business. You'd need all sorts of business licensing to set up a store. Do you need to do that to sell something on Craigslist? Of course, not, because the law recognizes the difference between a private individual selling their property and a business. The COURTS have properly applied this test in Massachusetts.
The point here is that tickets SHOULD be personal property. I'm bothered at this effort on the part of ticket sellers to destroy that simple relationship in an effort not to advantage "the fans" but to advantage the ticket seller. It reminds me of the entertainment industry revoking fair use by pretending they aren't selling me an album, but merely selling me a license to listen to an album. No, that's not how it works. A ticket should be property and we should be allowed to do with our property as we will. Otherwise, everything we "own" will become just temporary rentals at the pleasure of the stores who sold them to us who can revoke them as they like.
But who's property
Tickets are property: they belong to the team that distributes them. Selling one's tickets to friends is one thing, but a lot of season ticket holders never go to a single game. They hand their tickets over to agencies as soon as they hit their door.
I don't like it, but if I want to see a Sox or Pats game from good seats, I have no choice but to hit the resellers. Obviously there's a market for such activity, but any team has the right to revoke someone's ticket at any time if they believe that said person is not abiding by the rules and regulations governing the use of those tickets. And those rules and regulations are not set by the state; they are set by the team.
I'm all for revocation of people's season tickets. Every single game I went to at Fenway this year, if purchased from a reseller (and not Relay or eBay) was a season ticket. Every single one. And the same seats show up for every game. It is high time the teams took those seats back and started going through their waiting lists.
Pinkhats, StubHub and Rich Assholes
All I know is that I grew up going to games at Fenway and now I can barely afford to see a Devil Rays game in April.I am almost hoping for the team to have a 5 year losing slump so that I and other real baseball fans can afford to go again.It really makes me crazy to see two girls in pink hat SITTING RIGHT BEHIND HOMEPLATE talking on their cell phones and paying zero attention to the game.Or else you see some 5 year old kid sitting in the front row next to the on deck circle staring into space or crying for another 8 dollar slice of undercooked pizza.Now, I understand that baseball is for children too but a lot of these kids look like they would rather be somewhere else.I just wish I could have had more of a shot at getting some of these tickets.I will not be spending 800 dollars to sit in the rightfiled grandstand.I wouldnt pay 800 to sit behind the plate for game seven and I am a diehard.
Ugh
Every time I see someone talking on a cell phone at a baseball game I feel like reaching through the TV screen and strangling them.
Suldog
http://jimsuldog.blogspot.com
What about...
...taking cameraphone pics/vids and beaming them to all your friends? :o)
(And yes, I recognize that any taking of 20-second grainy videos without the permission of Major League Baseball is most likely strictly prohibited.)
You mean the Commissioner of Major League Baseball
Haven't you noticed how they've changed the requirement? You now have to call Bud Selig personally ...
And we'll have none of that local consent...
Cuz I believe it has to be express consent.
cellphone cameras at Sox games
But without cellphone cameras, we wouldn't have photos like this friend of mine takes at games. She's a very literate and loyal fan, but she also likes to illustrate her blog.
Hey Ma, Put ON NESN!!!!!!
Have you noticed this year there are no cellphone wavers?I think they are tougher about letting people slide into the behind homeplate seats late in the games. In the old days you could wait til the seventh and then slip down there to see how the other half lives.However, the influx of pinkhat/cellphone wavers has put an end to that nonsense.If you see someone starting to wave for the camera you will see a Fenway security person come down and check their tickets.If they dont belong they are kicked out. If they have tickets they are given a lecture and told to stop waving.I am happy I dont have to see idiots waving to their idiot friends anymore but it just ruins the chance for someone to ever get into those seats, even just for an inning.
I hear that, Suldog.
It doesn't only occur at ballgames, but I've seen people talking on their cellphones in the movies, and even at concerts. Its rude, rude, rude, imo.
You know, bostnkid....
Some people just don't have any common sense, and the people who take their 5-year-old kids to ballgames, yakking on their cellphones and being totally oblivious to everything around them, including the game and their crying kids are among them.
What is wrong with these people anyway??!?
Where do adult fans come from ...
... if they don't start as little-kid fans? I remember going to a few Cleveland Indians games (at the old lakefront stadium) before I was 11.
But, then again,
there's a humongous difference between 5 and 11.
Kids and ballgames
We have two boys who have two friends who are also brothers and are within hours to days of their age.
Our kids rarely show much interest in baseball. Ditto for the older friend. As parents, we love taking said kids and their other friends to Spinners games, where they show some transient interest and then run off in a pack to spend their own allowances on stuff and family fun center activities because it is all CHEAP.
The younger friend? He has been scoring baseball games since he was five years old. Whoh. All the other kids would run off, he'd take out a pencil and get to work. The kid will nearly wet his pants rather than miss a single play.
Needless to say, this kid gets to go to the Red Sox games at Fenway with his dad. They score the game together, and get pizza outside the park.
If a kid is interested, or might get interested, take them to a game and see how it goes. Otherwise, don't waste your money. There is much better family fun to be had at Spinners and PawSox and SeaDogs games, and it is cheaper and much more about the kids.