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A buddy offered me some Cavs tix tonite....

goose3goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭
goes on to tell me that he has season tix and wants to sell several pair. Tell me they'll be face value.

Goes on to tell me that they are across the court from the Cavs bench and Row 1.

115.00 per ticket. DAMN that's expensive!

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  • AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭
    Well floor seats to see Le Bron play? I'd pay that money.

  • goose3, sell em to him. I feel sorry for Seattle fans.
  • AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭
    See, unlike you spammy, I like my team because they are MY TEAM.

    I don't root for the team with the most super bowl wins.

    I don't root for the team with the most world series championships.

    We know you like the yankees solely on the fact they've won the most world series. We know this because you have mentioned it over and over and over.

    We know you like 'your' team when they are winning, and then they are 'the' yankees when they lose.

    Everyone has seen through your pathetic facade of 'being a fan', and everyone knows you only like the spanks because they are the most successful baseball franchise.

    Doesn't it suck to have no real connection to your team? To have no real love for the game?

    Wow, I could never imagine that.

  • NY Giants devotee
    NY Knicks lover
    NY Rangers fan

    Have these teams won something in the last 5 years I don't know about?
  • AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭


    << <i>NY Giants devotee
    NY Knicks lover
    NY Rangers fan

    Have these teams won something in the last 5 years I don't know about? >>



    So you've only been a fan for the last 5 years? What happened to the lifelong fan you claim to be?

    Which is it?
  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭


    << <i>goose3, sell em to him. I feel sorry for Seattle fans. >>



    Congratulations on ruining another thread, Spammy.
    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts

  • <<So you've only been a fan for the last 5 years? What happened to the lifelong fan you claim to be?

    Which is it?>>

    My point is the Knicks have been in the playoffs and the Giants in the Super Bowl fairly recently, and now they plain suck (maybe the Giants will surprize me yet) but I still root for the teams I have been rooting for my whole life.

  • stownstown Posts: 11,321 ✭✭✭
    Thread Title: A buddy offered me some Cavs tix tonite....

    Spammy contributes to another thread.



    << <i>My point is the Knicks have been in the playoffs and the Giants in the Super Bowl fairly recently, and now they plain suck (maybe the Giants will surprize me yet) but I still root for the teams I have been rooting for my whole life. >>

    So basically my kid won't be able to go to college, but at least I'll have a set where the three most expensive cards are of a player I despise ~ CDsNuts
  • AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭


    << <i>
    My point is the Knicks have been in the playoffs and the Giants in the Super Bowl fairly recently >>





    And THAT'S why you're a fan...spammy, we get it.

    No, we do.





    No, honestly, we understand.

    You like and root for successful teams, and feel that somehow their winning championships validates your existence.

    It's sad that a grown man has to live through others as it's so clearly YOU do.

  • CardsFanCardsFan Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭


    << <i>115.00 per ticket. DAMN that's expensive! >>



    First row might be worth it. Did your buddy ever have to sell any? Might go for well over face on stubhub and similiar sites for the games you don't go to.
  • ctsoxfanctsoxfan Posts: 6,246 ✭✭
    I'd love to get a few of those tickets - but, I'm nowhere near Cleveland, so that's out. StubHub is a great idea for him to sell some - I have bought and sold tickets on that site, and it gives you a nice marketplace of sports fans to sell to. The games where they play, for example, the Heat, Pistons, Spurs, Lakers etc. should sell for more than face value easily.
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  • goose3goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭
    He said he sold his pair to the Lakers game last year.........I believe he got 900.00.
  • <<StubHub is a great idea for him to sell some - I have bought and sold tickets on that site, and it gives you a nice marketplace of sports fans to sell to.>>

    I think eBay is better to sell and buy. StubHub takes a cut from the Seller and Buyer.
  • CardsFanCardsFan Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭


    << <i>I think eBay is better to sell and buy. StubHub takes a cut from the Seller and Buyer. >>



    But at least you don't have to deal with e-bay headaches of dishonest people.
  • ctsoxfanctsoxfan Posts: 6,246 ✭✭


    << <i>

    << <i>I think eBay is better to sell and buy. StubHub takes a cut from the Seller and Buyer. >>



    But at least you don't have to deal with e-bay headaches of dishonest people. >>



    That's why I like it. Serious buyers only, for the most part. They even have offices that hold the tickets for game day pickup in some cities (like Boston).
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  • it was pretty pathetic seeing all the red sox fans come out the woodworks last year...No one gave 2 shhhh about them down 0-3 to the yanks. But when they came back it was like OH GO SOX! I been a fan since the old days and we finally break the curse! WOOOOO Let's drink beer!
    Real recognize REAL
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  • I really hope you buy those. You can sell those tickets all day on ebay at 200 a pop. People will pay rediculous amounts to be close to lebron.
  • Scalpers suck. Ticket "brokers" are nothing more than organized and somehow legitimized scalpers. Here's a letter I sent to the Boston Globe on the subject. Obviously, being part owners of the team, they didn't want to print it.

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    I recently heard an advertisement on WEEI for the company Stub Hub,
    informing me that a portion of the proceeds from my Red Sox ticket
    purchase would go to "Curt's Pitch For ALS".

    It is bad enough that the "official radio network" of the Red Sox features
    commercials for organized ticket scalping. But I can not believe one of
    the most visible Red Sox stars is now lending misdirected legitimacy to
    that organization by associating ticket scalping and charity.

    Ticket brokers like Stub Hub are scalpers, plain and simple. They use
    unfair methods to purchase tickets for face value, then resell them to the
    public at ridiculously high mark-up prices. Brokers are no better than
    the shady, annoying scalpers patrolling Kenmore Sq before a game. Both
    serve one purpose - to make a profit ripping off fans.

    While I’ve come to accept the cowardice displayed by the City of Boston as
    it turns a blind eye to the scalpers in the street, I find it shameful and
    insulting (not to mention a gross conflict of interest ) to see WEEI, the
    Red Sox, and one of their star players associate themselves with the
    business of ticket scalping.


    Thank you
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  • Here's some good news on the subject though:

    Fighting back against scalpers
  • AxtellAxtell Posts: 10,037 ✭✭
    Isn't stubhub tickets sold tickets from season ticket holders?

    That being said, I'm not sure that's an 'unfair' way of getting tickets as the letter write alleges.
  • CardsFanCardsFan Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Scalpers suck. Ticket "brokers" are nothing more than organized and somehow legitimized scalpers. Here's a letter I sent to the Boston Globe on the subject. Obviously, being part owners of the team, they didn't want to print it. >>



    My big problem is with the selling system. Speaking only for the MLB the virtual waiting room sucks. Because of fights last year you are no longer allowed to camp out for Cards tickets, so the day tickets went on sale I spent all day in the stupid virtual waiting room trying to get tickets and never did get through. Same thing the day Cubs tickets went on sale. I don't know if this caused by ticket brokers buying up all the tickets so I can't through or if the system just sucks, probably a combination of both.

  • CardsFanCardsFan Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭


    << <i>Isn't stubhub tickets sold tickets from season ticket holders? >>



    They advertise to season ticket holders but anyone can sell on there.
  • You wait all day in the virtual waiting room because the scalpers and agencies have thousands of computers and computer programmers getting in before you.
  • CardsFanCardsFan Posts: 1,093 ✭✭✭


    << <i>You wait all day in the virtual waiting room because the scalpers and agencies have thousands of computers and computer programmers getting in before you. >>



    Yes, you would think that something could be done about this, I'm not sure what but someone needs a plan. The most outragous is the Cubs who have ticket broker company that they are also owned by the Tribune and gets tickets funnelled to it.
  • goose3goose3 Posts: 11,471 ✭✭✭
    here are the dates/games...

    anyone Here interested in any??? Just pay the face price and for some secure shipping.

    Wed Oct 19th Memphis 7:00
    Tues Nov 15th Washington 7:00
    Tues Nov 22nd Boston 7:00
    Tues Dec 13th Atlanta 7:00
    Sat Feb 11th Golden State 7:30
    Tues Mar 7th Toronto 7:00
    Wed Mar 22nd Charlotte 7:00

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